Posted on 06/13/2002 7:48:51 AM PDT by JediGirl
Last modified at 11:50 a.m. on Friday, June 7, 2002
• On the Net: Nebraska Department of Education, the Concerned Citizens for Objective Science Education, and the Intelligent Design Network
By Scott Bauer
The Associated Press
LINCOLN -- The State Board of Education is being asked to allow for the teaching of numerous theories about how life began in addition to evolution.
One of those theories holds that aliens could have started life on Earth.
The board is considering whether to add state science standards to an accreditation rule schools must follow to operate.
More than a dozen people were scheduled to appear at the board meeting Friday to comment on the standards. Math and reading standards have already been added to the rule.
The science standards were approved in 1999. State law now requires schools to report how they are meeting such standards, so they must be added to Nebraska's accreditation rule.
The standards make it clear that evolution be taught as theory, not objective fact. They also ask that students investigate and use the theory of biological evolution to explain the diversity of life.
At an earlier hearing, several people supported the intelligent design concept.
Intelligent design is a belief that living things are too complex to have occurred through random genetic change and must have been designed by a higher power. The nature of that being is not specified, but backers acknowledge it could have been a biblical God, supernatural or extraterrestrial.
Critics of the concept argue that intelligent design is not science and that it is a disguise for creationism, which credits the origin of species to God and has been barred by courts from public schools.
The teaching of creationism in Nebraska drew heated debate in 1999 when the state board adopted science standards that left out any mention of creationism.
Some members of the state board in 1999 wanted to revise the standards to require schools teach that there are other theories in addition to evolution, including creationism.
Big smile! :-)
Originally liberals were social conservatives who advocated growth and progess mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality...the nature of man/govt. does not change.
Atheist secular materialists through evolution removed the foundations...made the absolutes relative and call all technology evolution(science) to substantiate their efforts--claims...social engineering--PC!
Liberals/Evolution BELIEVE they are the conservatives too!
What's left?
You actually buy into this?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
What is the name of God, actually? Isn't "God" a title rather than a name?
Just asking... :)
Hope? You want the Dark Ages back? Just what is this "science cabal" of which you speak?
Thus the scientific establishment creates and perpetuates itself through organizations and PR monopolizing scientific funding.
You should try to keep up with all the competing and conflicting theories that keep getting put forward in the field of cosmology. It will quickly change your mind.
There are two fronts of attack on the current scientific paradigms -- those from new and better theories, and those from crank theories.
The new and better theories eventually become the current paradigms -- when they can show they are not really crank theories. Consider it a temporary scientific purgatory. Unfortunately ID just hasn't made the cut and will dwell in the underworld forevermore.
As is science to meaningless life.
They are probably pleased as punch too. See we have total happiness.
It kinda makes you wonder how our society will maintain itself in a generation or two. Maybe that's why the future has no records from this time period.
Time to bring God back into the public forum openly.
Really? So tell us, how did the scientific laws which science discover arise? Who enforces those laws? How can there be scientific laws in a random occurring universe?
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