Posted on 07/07/2006 2:39:21 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
A Seattle-based research group that advocates intelligent design said today it will campaign to educate Kansans that the science standards approved by the State Board of Education are sound.
“Kansas citizens need to have accurate information about what the science standards do,” said John West, associate director of the Center for Science & Culture for Discovery Institute.
West said the group will start an information campaign over the Internet immediately and possibly start a radio campaign. He declined to say how much the center would spend.
The decision puts the Discovery Institute in the center of hotly-contested State Board of Education school board races.
The board’s 6-4 decision to approve science standards that question evolution has been a major issue in the five board places that are up for grabs this year. The science standards are used as guidelines to what students learn in Kansas public schools.
Mainstream scientists have said the standards criticize evolution in a way that could introduce intelligent design in science classrooms. Intelligent design posits there was a master force that designed life.
Could you like narrow it down for me?
No.
I did my own research. I pointed the way for you. Now its your turn. Think or swim.
Intellectualism???
That's the Wedge document from the Discovery Institute. Not even close.
Go read it. Then you'll know.
I'll read it all, even the big words.
That is the kind of guy that I am.
Thanks for sharing.
"high order prenatal-to-present beergoggling" PLACEMARKER
one question: you do realise that the "Wedge Document" is an internal memo from the Discovery institute, don't you? It spells out the strategy and motives of the "ID Movement" in rather incontrovertable terms, in their own words.
Nope.
I never even heard of this "Wedge Document" thingy before tonight. I'm not ashamed of my ignorance.
Not at all.
I revel in it.
so noted.
Now I gotta go look up what "revel" means.
Are we having fun yet?
I think Radix is a 14-yo who is good at googling. He cites facts without context. He cites 20-dollar words and phrases without understanding how they apply. In short, he is a child. He substitutes wiki for data and bon mots for intelligence.
I think you should ignore him. Unless he says something profound (it has yet to happen).
I am not going to ping him to this -- he will see it in the by and by (something else he will have to googe).
*shrugs*
I am certain that we are quite like minded concerning most things.
It is fun to play though.
Even if you are sometimes an arrogant ass.
only when I am correct beyond contestation, yet the peons nevertheless insist on yammering like decerebrate ovines.
yes, you may look all that up.
you may go now.
You can kiss my grits.
I did an awful lot of homework in order to get to this place where I can dispute your arrogant condescending BS.
You really do not want to go toe to toe with me. I promise.
I am wasting my time with the likes of you.
The lurkers will come to their own conclusions.
We'll see what happens!
I had thought you had expressed an enjoyment of play.
did I misunderstand, or did you, ah, "misspeak yourself"?
Did I mispeak Roi Prout?
It ain't as if that would be a new phenomenon in my life.
You know like that counting coup thingy....which we never did between the gang of us.
Pardon Monsieur. Je n comprends pas votre excellence.
Someday I'll learn French again.
I wish that I was as smart as you are.
so do we all.
In a word...
Fun.
I really like you guys...
well, I hope you laughed as hard as I did in posting #198
oh... Kansas Prime, btw
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