[LiteKeeper]

YEC SPOTREP

[Minuteman23]

All three members of the Kansas sub-committee support a change in the standards to tell students that evolution is only a theory, not a fact, and to include alternatives. The full Kansas school board, which is controlled by a 6-4 conservative majority, is expected to rewrite the standards in June, joining Ohio, which took a similar step three years ago. Legislators in Alabama and Georgia are also considering Bills to allow teachers to challenge Darwin in class.

Slow and steady progress.

[bahblahbah]

This is the wrong time for this.

[concerned about politics]

Pro-Darwin scientists distributed an internet posting outside the hearing in which Dr Wells declares: “Father’s words, my studies and my prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism.”

Notice how the Darwinists get so bitter when their religion is challenged. They get absolutely rabid. That says something about their real agenda.

[shuckmaster]

There's obviously some real idiots running the show in Kansas. With the sad state our public schools are in today, it's a real shame that so-called conservatives would choose to make fools of themselves attacking science. Imagine if they would put the same effort into contesting socialism as they do biology.

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

A better title would be "Guild Members Protest Denial of Automatic Authority to their favorite Theory".


The nature of the arguments one hears on the coherency and intelligibiliy of Darwinian "just so" stories resembles the centuries of theological billingsgate tossed back and forth between sectarian opponents.

Science as a truth-seeking enterprise is very powerful, but loses that power when its participants become so committed to their interpretation of data based on past arguments, that they lose sight of new evidence that challenges the accuracy of the assumptions underlying these arguments.

Do we live in a universe driven by irrational random processes or is it an artifact of an intelligent being? What evidence might settle the choice between these alternatives?
These are open questions, worthy of discussion. The discussion will not progress, however, as long as some participants (or mere observers) are convinced that they already have a definitive answer, and that arguments contrary to their views must be forcibly ejected from and permanently barred from the discussion.

That certainly appears to be the view of these official guild members who want to shut down the discussion. They are protesting a challenge to their monopolistic authority claims. Their protest should be noted, and rejected.

[Nucluside]

Boring, redundant thread.

[185JHP]

The hoax is circling the drain.