Posted on 04/13/2006 6:51:19 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Says it for me.
Young people are poorly served by the public school system.
Statements from Scientific and Scholarly Organizations. Sixty statements, all supporting evolution.
Statement on the Teaching of Evolution. By the American Astronomical Society.
Letter from Bruce Alberts on March 4, 2005. President of the National Academy of Sciences.
Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution. Excellent statement.
Project Steve. Nat'l Center for Science Education: the overwhelming number of genuine scientists supporting evolution.
Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry. Although there are legitimate debates about the patterns and processes of evolution, there is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence. It is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible for creationist pseudoscience, including but not limited to 'intelligent design,' to be introduced into the science curricula of our nation's public schools.These Steves are only the tip of the scientific iceberg, because the name "Steve" is given to only about 1% of the population. Therefore, the 700 Steves probably represent about 70,000 scientists. See also Project Steve update.
The Steves alone are greater in number than all the scientists (of every name) who have signed statements questioning evolution, and most of the evolution skeptics aren't biologists. For example, the much-publicized list of 500 names collected by the Discovery Institute includes only about 154 biologists, less than one-third of the total. Those 500 signed a rather ambiguous statement, which says:
We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.In contrast, two-thirds of the 700 Steves are biologists, so the biologist-Steves are about 466 in number. Steves are 1% of the population, so they represent approximately 46,600 biologists. Compare that number to the 154 biologists' names collected by the Discovery Institute. They're the totality of biologists who are evolution skeptics.
These competing lists clearly tell us that evolution skeptics are a tiny fringe group -- about one-third of one percent of biologists. Therefore, notwithstanding the unending demands to "teach the controversy," there literally is no scientific controversy about the basic principles of evolution. Scientists, especially those in the biological fields, are all but unanimous in their acceptance of evolution.
This guy was in such a hurry to corrupt the youth of the world that he published a tome on evolution before Darwin.
And oh yes, like that terrible atheist, Isaac Newton, he was a fellow of The Royal Society.
It gets worse. Read about The Royal Society's Darwin Medal.
Fear of knowledge would be more at home among the cargo cults of New Guinea than here.
Yup. And it only gets worse, in between the PC bullshit and the injection of dark ages philosophy as a replacement for science. Between the lefties and the ignoratii (not mutually exclusive groups, mind you), the public system is going down the toilet. Turn it private (with vouchers) and we can watch the groups learning reality get ahead (while not being dragged down) and the other groups drown.
As an added bonus, the nanny-staters and those looking for cultural welfare handouts will put on an entertaining show.
Absolutely. Intelligent design should get the same representation in a science classroom as any other theory that has received an equivalent amount of positive peer review from trained, professional scientists.
Our Math scores are so low I personally would like to see them
spend more time and resources in that area and less with evolution or ID.
Sorry, but it is all related.
Expansion of the teaching of creationism and/or ID will eventually drop math / physics scores to the sub-basement.
This movement has to be stopped.
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