Posted on 08/02/2006 9:17:33 AM PDT by JCEccles
Columbia, SC –- After months of debate, today the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee unanimously ratified high school biology standards requiring students to understand why "scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory." The South Carolina State Board of Education adopted the standards unanimously last month, and submitted them to the EOC for approval. South Carolina’s new evolution standard does not require teaching the theory of intelligent design.
The biology standard approved requires students to be able to, “Summarize ways that scientists use data from a variety of sources to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.” This falls under the overall biology standard which says that “The student will demonstrate an understanding of biological evolution and the diversity of life.”
“This victory is an important milestone towards improving the quality of science education, by ensuring that students learn the full range of relevant scientific evidence, including the scientific criticisms of evolution,” said Casey Luskin an attorney and public policy analyst with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. “South Carolina is the fifth current state to require students to learn about scientific criticisms of evolution and this policy helps remedy the problem that most biology textbooks today largely ignore scientific challenges to Darwinism.”
South Carolina State Senator Mike Fair, a member of the Education Oversight Committee, and Terrye Campsen Seckinger, a member of the South Carolina Board of Education, issued a statement applauding the approval of the new high school biology standards: “It is impossible to meet this standard without the discussion of the meaning of critical analysis as it applies to evolutionary science. This is a great improvement over our 2000 standards. Students will now have the opportunity to wholly learn about the theory of evolution. This means that students will have the opportunity to fully discuss all aspects of evolutionary theory instead of limiting discussion to only evidence that might support it.”
Yes the Internet does help, but not in the way you think
Quite the opposite in fact, for example according to your own numbers,
88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return.
And of course since 1991 when the Internet started to come about
In 1991 8.2% didn't believe in God
In 2001 14.1% didn't believe in God
And today in 2006 18% don't believe in God
Explains why the crime and teenage pregnancy rates have been declining
But yep with the Internet the creationist ignorance, lies and hate filled rants are totally on display, and they drive more people away from religion than any Atheist could ever dream of.
Way to go!!
Spring water could be fine or not. water is water. If it isn't pure H2O then the question is, what else is in it. My town publishes an analysis by neighborhood every so often. All the reasonably likely contaminants are listed. It isn't the same from place to place.
I can understand being concerned about the competence of a sewage treatment plant, but your concerns strike me as hippie-dippy mysticism. All water has been part of an undrinkable body at one time or another.
Dimensio. How soon you forget your professor.
I'd have to go to the zoo to look at one. Of course, after it died and was skinned.
A dead human
How many guesses do I get?
It is all in what you see, and not in what you have been told.
"A dead human."
No human has ever had a skull that looked anything like a spider monkey's. You must be so proud that you dismissed a set of skulls when you don't know the first thing about them. A 5 year old could tell you that the spider monkey skull was not human.
I guess for some, ignorance truly is bliss.
You're supposed to find the toe bone yourself and prove it does not belong to a bi-pedaled being. Even then you will probably be charged with the inability to back your claims. You see, in order to "back the claim" of intelligent design God Himself must constantly and plainly announce His every association with organized matter that performs specific functions. Funny how, on the one hand, such scant evidence can be compelling for an evoltuionist, while, OTOH, the ubiquitous presence of organized matter that performs specific functions cannot possibly serve as evidence for intelligent design.
"God's penis" placemark
Oh I don't reject scientific methodologies and don't have problems w/ basic sciences at all.
In fact, I insist that they be applied rigorously and that projecting effects back into unobservable time frames be recognized as the metaphysical activity that it is.
That's why certain people have such a problem w/ me. They like to equivocate evidence and interpretations of evidence to 'support' their favorite belief and that simply isn't good science.
I am merely here to draw attention to that fact...continually.
It's not even a logical approach to try to drape the mantle of 'science' over the creation/naturalism question, but evos don't understand even that.
Goodbye.
Bye troll.
Because they are all in the Linnaean Class - Mammal. It's no big deal to find the same genetic markers among all mammals. Why do you think it would be?
As I said earlier, the best that I could find was the claim that genetic phylogenies were 'broadly consistent' with Linnaean classification.
There's no special predictive power for 'broadly consistent'.
I notice that you like to throw the 'troll' label around when you have no arguments.
Very impressive.
Goodbye.
Bye Troll.
The only problem we have is that you waste bandwidth. You haven't said a thing that anyone cares about. Philosophy is secular apologetics, not particularly relevant to science.
Evidence without an interpretation is not evidence, and not all interpretations have equal value. I am merely here to draw attention to that fact.
PistolPaknMama - when you are speaking of another poster in a reply, ping him to it.
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