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'Intelligent Design' Wins In Kansas
CBS News ^ | 10 November 2005

Posted on 11/09/2005 4:31:43 PM PST by Aussie Dasher

(AP) Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.

The board's 6-4 vote, expected for months, was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.

Critics of the proposed language charged that it was an attempt to inject creationism into public schools in violation of the separation between church and state.

The board's vote is likely to heap fresh national criticism on Kansas and cause many scientists to see the state as backward. Current state standards treat evolution as well-established — a view also held by national science groups

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: antiscience; creation; crevolist; god; idiocy; idtruth; idvictory; ignoranceisstrength; intelligentdesign; kansas; schoolboard; scienceeducation
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To: ARCADIA
For sake of argument, I would suggest that superstition is no worse than fabrication.

For examples:

Lucy
Archaeopteryx
Neanderthal Man
Punctuated Equilibrium
Cro-Magnon Man

And this is just to name a few.
21 posted on 11/09/2005 4:59:47 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Ah, I never thought to check the date of signing up here on FR....lets see if he/she is going to reply to anyone, or just let the post stand, on its own, as an example of sheer stupidity...


22 posted on 11/09/2005 5:01:01 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: This Just In; ARCADIA

How about the dinosaurs? Or do you think those are fabrications, too?


23 posted on 11/09/2005 5:02:46 PM PST by Wolfstar (Whatever happened to "These Colors Don't Run?")
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To: Centerfield


If you are fired, it will be their loss, but worth it. My hats off to you for not compromising what is true.


24 posted on 11/09/2005 5:03:42 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: MarcusTulliusCicero

Sounds to me like the voters of Darby are as dumb as the monkeys they think they come from.


25 posted on 11/09/2005 5:03:51 PM PST by LS
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To: This Just In
Science has a proven process for testing and revising its theories. It doesn't rely on blind faith and sheer ignorance.

Believe as you wish; But, don't inject stale garbage into a functional machine.
26 posted on 11/09/2005 5:04:16 PM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: This Just In
And this is just to name a few.

Normally people who try to come up with fabrications hit on at least one or two semi-controversial specimens. This may be the first time I've seen such a clean miss on all counts.

27 posted on 11/09/2005 5:05:30 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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To: LS

Not necessarily. They just don't like pseudoscience masquerading as science.....unless it's global warming, of course.


28 posted on 11/09/2005 5:06:20 PM PST by MarcusTulliusCicero
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To: Wolfstar

How about those fossils that were unearthed alongside human remains, which we have seen? How about those fossil imprints that were discovered with human imprints alongside them?

No, not neandethal remains or footprints. They were identified as human.

If you are truly concerned with unbias truth, answer those questions regarding Lucy, Cro-Magnon Man, and the like.


29 posted on 11/09/2005 5:07:44 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: MarcusTulliusCicero

I've read a lot about ID. No pseudoscience at all, and every bit as logical or supported as that idiotic Dawinist crap.


30 posted on 11/09/2005 5:08:29 PM PST by LS
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To: This Just In
How about those fossils that were unearthed alongside human remains, which we have seen? How about those fossil imprints that were discovered with human imprints alongside them?

Wanna show me?

BTW, dinosaurs aren't mentioned in the Bible. How come?

31 posted on 11/09/2005 5:10:14 PM PST by Wolfstar (Whatever happened to "These Colors Don't Run?")
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To: Centerfield

I substitute taught today for a biology teacher in NJ. They were in the middle of the Darwin/Evolution unit. The teacher left a big project for them about the giraffe neck, and how it came to be long via "survivial of the fittest. Anyway, I threw her plans in the rubbish bin and gave my own lecture. God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. He took a rib from Adam to make woman. Many of the kids had never heard this before. I'll prob. get fired."

That would be appropriate. Your church would not let me teach about how birds evolved from dinosaurs. Fact.

32 posted on 11/09/2005 5:12:42 PM PST by Free as the breeze
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To: LS
I've read a lot about ID. No pseudoscience at all, and every bit as logical or supported as that idiotic Dawinist crap.

Then save us all some time. Who was the intelligent designer?

33 posted on 11/09/2005 5:14:19 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Centerfield
Anyway, I threw her plans in the rubbish bin and gave my own lecture. God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. He took a rib from Adam to make woman. Many of the kids had never heard this before. I'll prob. get fired.

Get a job teaching Sunday School. It doesn't pay, but that's where your so-called "education" belongs.

34 posted on 11/09/2005 5:14:38 PM PST by Clemenza (In League with the Freemasons, The Bilderbergers, and the Learned Elders of Zion)
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To: LS

I'm afraid not, but that's a debate for another thread.


35 posted on 11/09/2005 5:14:57 PM PST by MarcusTulliusCicero
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To: Senator Bedfellow
I did not realize that Dodge Ball was a profession. You must be an MVP.

Try to address those which I listed. Normally, people who lack any knowledge of the topics afore side usually have large, pointy index fingers. It fails to divert the attention.
36 posted on 11/09/2005 5:15:11 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: Wolfstar
BTW, dinosaurs aren't mentioned in the Bible. How come?

Neither was America, or the New World. Wonder why?
37 posted on 11/09/2005 5:18:23 PM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Wolfstar


I must exit stage right for a time. I will try to send you those images, whether it's this evening or on another day.

Also, I will send you chapter and verse addressing "dinosaurs".

Good day.


38 posted on 11/09/2005 5:19:01 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: This Just In


"side"=said


39 posted on 11/09/2005 5:20:03 PM PST by This Just In ("Those are my principles, if you don't like them, I've got others" - Groucho Marx)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Soon Kansas will have the finest education 19th century minds can provide.

Aircraft factories and commodities futures traders will move out to make way for the growth, high-income industries of buggy whip manufacture and production of burkahs for export to fellow theocracies.


40 posted on 11/09/2005 5:24:47 PM PST by Free as the breeze
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