[Our_Man_In_Gough_Island]

I am personally more interested in this event as a news item than with regard to the philosophies of science that underly the new law.

[RogueIsland]

"This is a great day for education," board chairman Steve Abrams told the Reuters news agency.

Yeah, for the education of the countries that are competing agaisnt us on the world stage it sure is.

[Leg Olam]

Kansas, home to the three most mis-named towns. Garden City, Goodland and Liberal.

[apackof2]

The sad thing is that a that so called learning institutions have to be ordered to even consider all options

[dr_lew]

Kansas Suffers Evolution Setback

[Junior]

The CrevoSci Archive Just one of the many services of Darwin Central "The Conspiracy that Cares"

• PatrickHenry's famous List-O-Links
• Webster's On-Line Dictionary:  Creationist

CrevoSci threads for the past week:

1. 2005-11-09 Dover CARES sweeps election (Intelligent Design loses big)
2. 2005-11-09 Evolution Suffers Kansas Setback
3. 2005-11-08 RATE research reveals remarkable results—a fatal blow to billions of years (Evolution loses)
4. 2005-11-08 "The ""Vatican"" Endorses ""Darwin""? [""Vatican"" has done no such thing"
5. 2005-11-08 Kansas education board downplays evolution
6. 2005-11-08 Down for the Count (Sleep & Evolution)
7. 2005-11-08 Kansas State Board Approves Teaching Standards Skeptical of Evolution
8. 2005-11-08 Math problems too big for our brains
9. 2005-11-08 Bloodthirsty 'Vampire' Spider Found
10. 2005-11-08 Federal lawsuit could follow board vote [Evolution in Kansas & Dover]
11. 2005-11-07 [Kansas] Board Votes on Evolution (Tomorrow, NOV 8 - Teaching I.D. to be approved!)
12. 2005-11-07 An Evolutionist's Evolution [Huge exhibit at Museum of Nat. History, NYC]
13. 2005-11-07 Prehistoric skull found in dump may be missing common ancestor of apes & humans
14. 2005-11-07 Good genes beat good homes as guide to pupils’ school Success
15. 2005-11-07 Kennewick Man, Meet Your Distant Cousins
16. 2005-11-07 Evolution in the bible, says Vatican
17. 2005-11-07 A pope for our times: why Darwin is back on the agenda at the Vatican
18. 2005-11-06 Evolution Is in the Air
19. 2005-11-06 (Pennsylvania) Dover heads list of contested local races
20. 2005-11-06 African cousins behind extinction of Indians 70,000 years ago!
21. 2005-11-06 (Pennsylvania) Dover First Re-elect our school board
22. 2005-11-06 Intelligent Design or Mindless Evolution
23. 2005-11-06 Science as Kansas sees it
24. 2005-11-05 The Case of Behe vs. Darwin
25. 2005-11-05 Can biology do better than faith?
26. 2005-11-05 Do space aliens have souls? Inquiring minds can check Jesuit's book
27. 2005-11-05 Adult Stem Cells May Be Just Remnants Of Evolution
28. 2005-11-04 'Intelligent design' trial set to conclude [at last]
29. 2005-11-04 Is science driven by inspired guesswork?
30. 2005-11-04 Shaped from clay [origin of life]
31. 2005-11-03 Vatican Cardinal Says We Should Listen to Science
32. 2005-11-03 Science versus scientism
33. 2005-11-03 The Specter of Difference
34. 2005-11-03 Origin of board decision probed [Dover Evolution trial, 03 Nov]
35. 2005-11-03 Scientists See Light that May Be from First Objects in Universe
36. 2005-11-03 Bees solve complex colour puzzles (Bees solve puzzles computers can't - maybe they're designed!)

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CrevoSci Warrior Freepdays for the month of November:
 

2000-11-10 AncientAirs 2000-11-21 AndrewC 1998-11-18 angelo 1999-11-22 Blood of Tyrants 2003-11-26 blowfish 2004-11-08 CarolinaGuitarman 1997-11-28 cd jones 2001-11-30 claptrap 2001-11-16 CobaltBlue 2002-11-21 DannyTN 2004-11-16 DaveLoneRanger 1997-11-30 Ditto 2001-11-16 dmz

2000-11-11 Ernest_at_the_Beach 2000-11-02 Exit 109 2000-11-22 FFIGHTER 2000-11-12 ForGod'sSake 2001-11-07 FourtySeven 2000-11-10 Godel 2004-11-06 GreenOgre 2000-11-04 harbinger of doom 2000-11-28 HiTech RedNeck 1999-11-05 Ichneumon 1998-11-13 jennyp 1998-11-25 Junior_G 2002-11-17 Just mythoughts

2004-11-11 kaotic133 2003-11-18 little jeremiah 1998-11-18 malakhi 2000-11-19 Mike Fieschko 2000-11-06 mrjeff 1999-11-05 muleskinner 2003-11-17 Nathan Zachary 2002-11-12 NCLaw441 1999-11-25 Nebullis 2000-11-13 NYer 2000-11-24 old-ager 2004-11-03 PajamaHadin 2000-11-10 Patriotic Teen

1998-11-01 Pharmboy 2000-11-11 P-Marlowe 2000-11-16 presidio9 2002-11-14 Remedy 2000-11-30 Right Wing Professor 2004-11-18 rightwinggoth 1998-11-15 rob777 1998-11-04 RobRoy 1999-11-16 TerP26 2000-11-04 TigerTale 2004-11-11 untrained skeptic 2000-11-05 will of the people 2003-11-29 woodb01

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In Memoriam
Fallen CrevoSci Warriors:

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ALS angelo Area Freeper Aric2000 Askel5 biblewonk bluepistolero churchillbuff claptrap codebreaker Con X-Poser ConservababeJen DittoJed2 dob

Ed Current f.Christian followerofchrist general_re goodseedhomeschool gopwinsin04 gore3000 IllumiNOTi JediGirl JesseShurun JethroHathaway jlogajan Justice Avenger Kevin Curry

kharaku knowquest Le-Roy malakhi Marathon medved metacognative Modernman n4sir NoKinToMonkeys Ogmios peg the prophet Phaedrus Phoroneus

pickemuphere ret_medic RickyJ SeaLion Selkie Shubi Tomax tpaine Truth666 twittle Unalienable WaveThatFlag xm177e2

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Bring back Modernman and SeaLion!

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Lost CrevoSci Battlefields (Pulled Threads)

• 2004-04-27 Stop Teaching Our Kids this Evolution Claptrap!
• 2003-10-29 The Mystery of the Missing Links (Intelligent Design vs. Evolution)
• 2003-10-27 Physics Nobelist Takes Stand on Evolution
• 2003-10-23 Gene Found for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• 2003-10-21 Artificial Proteins Assembled from Scratch
• 2003-09-23 Solar System Formation Questions
• 2003-07-18 Unlikely Group May Revive Darwin Debate [Evolution v. Creationism]
• 2003-07-02 "Unlocking the Mystery of ""Unlocking the Mystery of Life"""
• 2003-06-26 Darwin Faces a New Rival
• 2003-06-06 Amazing Creatures
• 2002-09-13 Oldest Known Penis Is 100 Million Years Old
• 2002-04-10 (Creationists) CRSC Correction
• 2001-08-28 The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource [6th Revision]
• 2001-08-26 A Scientific Account of the Origin of Life on Earth [Thread I]
• 2001-01-13 A Christian Understanding of Intelligent Design
• 2000-10-10 Another Lost Generation?
• 2000-08-30 Evil-Ution
• 1999-11-14 Creationism's Success Past 5 Years: (Gallup: 1 in 10 hold secular evolutionist perspective)

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Longest CrevoSci Thread Ever

• 2002-12-11 Evolution Disclaimer Supported (6,871 replies)

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Glossary of Terms

Assumption: Premise: a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"
Belief: Any cognitive content (perception) held as true; religious faith
Crevo:  Creation vs. evolution
CrevoSci:  Creation vs. evolution/Science
CrevoSci Warriors:  Those who take part on CrevoSci threads
Data: factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions
Dogma: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
Fact: When an observation is confirmed repeatedly and by many independent and competent observers, it can become a fact
Freepday:  The day a Freeper joined Free Republic
Hypothesis: A tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"
Impression: A vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"
Law: A generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics"
Observation: Any information collected with the senses
Theory: A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"

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The
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[Coyoteman]

Kansas has approved science standards for public schools that cast doubt on evolution.

Corrected version:

Kansas has approved science standards for public schools that cast doubt on Kansas.

[Mogollon]

There was a time when there was no matter in the universe but there never was a time when there was nothing in the universe...otherwise nothing would exist now.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Great! Another lawsuit about to begin.

[steve-b]

It also states that says certain evolutionary explanations "are not based on direct observations... and often reflect... inferences from indirect or circumstantial evidence".

Yeah, that's the same reasoning the OJ Simpson jury used to reject the "indirect or circumstantial evidence" indicating his guilt.