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To: js1138; Junior; jennyp; VadeRetro; Nebullis; Virginia-American
Good story on the politics (it certainly wasn't science) behind the Ohio decision:
How state board thinking evolved on biology lesson.
162 posted on 03/14/2004 7:39:08 AM PST by PatrickHenry (A compassionate evolutionist.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Laws, policy, and sausage. If you like them, you may not want to watch them being made.

In this case, it was all about ... call it "zealot placement." Getting Holy Warrior idiots on committees and boards. Now science education in Ohio will be cluttered with Luddite anti-science screeching for years.
163 posted on 03/14/2004 7:47:44 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro
it certainly wasn't science

The absence of scientific arguments against evolution points out the autodeterminacy in the conclusions of a system of thinking. This determinacy began to be a problem in philosophy (after Kant) and proceeded into historical and natural sciences, and, especially in the '20s and on, in physics. This determinacy comes in the form of a limit: the tool finds only what it is designed to find.

When in human thought the starting set of postulates or assumptions are adopted, no refutation to any of its natural conclusions exists, theoretically, because the assumptions stand. No non-Euclidean geometry--it's not geometry. And the irony of the school board's curriculum is that it forecloses criticism from without.

This treats the question foreclosed as to what constitutes scientific knowledge. But more than that that only this kind of scientific knowledge is necessary concerning questions about origins and descent theories.

This is why it is always safe and comforting keep from venturing out of one's own field.

173 posted on 03/14/2004 8:33:31 AM PST by cornelis
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To: PatrickHenry
How state board thinking evolved on biology lesson.

Disgusting article. These people need to be exposed for the charlatans they are.

191 posted on 03/14/2004 11:06:13 AM PST by RightWingNilla
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To: PatrickHenry
Good story on the politics (it certainly wasn't science) behind the Ohio decision:
How state board thinking evolved on biology lesson.

Darn, I thought I had the scoop! (I really MUST get up earlier in the morning.)

196 posted on 03/14/2004 1:06:11 PM PST by jennyp (http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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