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Posted on 10/14/2002 4:59:49 PM PDT by RCW2001
| The Associated Press
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| COLUMBUS, Ohio Oct. 14 — A state school board panel Monday recommended that Ohio science classes emphasize both evolution and the debate over its validity.
The committee left it up to individual school districts to decide whether to include in the debate the concept of "intelligent design," which holds that the universe is guided by a higher intelligence. The guidelines for the science curriculum simply put into writing what many school districts already do. The current guidelines do not even mention evolution. "What we're essentially saying here is evolution is a very strong theory, and students can learn from it by analyzing evidence as it is accumulated over time," said Tom McClain, a board member and co-chairman of the Ohio Board of Education's academic standards committee. Conservative groups, some of which had tried and failed to get biblical creation taught in the public schools, had argued that students should learn about intelligent design. But critics of intelligent design said it is creationism in disguise. On Monday, the committee unanimously forwarded a final draft without the concept in it to the full 19-member board. Board member Michael Cochran, who had pushed for intelligent design in the standards, said, "The amendment allows teachers and students in Ohio to understand that evolution really is a theory and that there are competing views and different interpretations. This allows them to be discussed." The Ohio school board will decide Tuesday whether to adopt the new standards or order that they be revised.
On the Net: Ohio Department of Education: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/ |
Evolution...homemade cheap science/theatrics---manmade garbage/ideology!
EXACTLY: Even with all the intelligence of people individually, the economy as a whole goes along & evolves beyond our ability to design it or predict where it's going!Yet with all our intelligence, it still evolved from simpler systems.
Every one of which evolved using our intelligence. No single person designed the car you drive.
And as Hayek argued in The Road to Serfdom as early as 1944, this is precisely why societies that adopt the planned economy in order to help their people's lives always fail. In time, they either have to admit that they can't plan their way to prosperity (because the wants/needs of the people keep changing unpredictably), or they have to abandon any respect they had for individual liberty and instead adopt more & more brutal dictatorship to keep the people's goals in line with the current Plans.
What the heck are you talking about? The economy as a whole is the economy as a whole. You can throw dollar bills at a chicken and take its eggs. That is part of the economy. It would still be designed. There is a Democrat design and a Republican design. Do you deny it? Which one do you want to have? According to you there is nothing we can do about the economy.
I mean the modern free market economy. It runs on relatively simple, clear legal rules, but outcomes per se are not mandated. It's a complex, unplanned, chaotic system. Individual employees, consumers, investors, and companies use an enormous amount of collective brainpower to try to survive & succeed in this system, yet they cannot design the system itself. They can only react as their industries or regional economies (or the overall economy itself) change around them.
So why is it free market? Is that an accident? Where do these rules come from? Are they an accident?
I, myself, in post 798, here, et. seq., have been similarly afflicted.
evo botulism is the road to serfdom...statist science---planning!
Well, we are talking philosophy here – does that bother you?
Not at all -- when it's done skillfully and civilly. And thanks for the stock tip.
And on another subject
This gives me a chuckle. You must understand the red statement is from a "Biblical scholar" that is confused by the figurative. Earth on stilts.
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