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  • Teaching Darwin

    03/22/2005 6:56:35 AM PST · by metacognative · 1,169 replies · 8,341+ views
    Weekly Standars ^ | March 21, 2005 | Paul McHugh
    Teaching Darwin Why we're still fighting about biology textbook. by Paul McHugh 03/28/2005, Volume 010, Issue 26 EIGHTY YEARS AGO THIS SUMMER, the Scopes trial upheld the effort of the state of Tennessee to exclude the teaching of Darwinian evolution from Tennessee classrooms. The state claimed Darwinism contradicted orthodox religion. But times change, and recently a federal judge ruled that a three-sentence sticker stating that "evolution is a theory not a fact" must be removed from Georgia high school biology texts because it contradicts orthodox science and represents an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. Both legal mandates--no Darwin yesterday, nothing but...
  • There are valid criticisms of evolution

    03/09/2005 1:46:32 PM PST · by metacognative · 633 replies · 6,860+ views
    Wichita Eagle ^ | 3/9/2005 | David berlinski
    Opinions There are valid criticisms of evolution BY DAVID BERLINSKI "If scientists do not oppose anti-evolutionism," said Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Council on Science Education, "it will reach more people with the mistaken idea that evolution is scientifically weak." Scott's understanding of "opposition" had nothing to do with reasoned discussion. It had nothing to do with reason at all. Discussing the issue was out of the question. Her advice to her colleagues was considerably more to the point: "Avoid debates." Everyone else had better shut up. In this country, at least, no one is ever going...
  • Irrefutable Design

    02/07/2005 8:16:39 AM PST · by metacognative · 251 replies · 3,125+ views
    New York Times ^ | 2/7/2005 | Behe, Michael
    OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Design for Living By MICHAEL J. BEHE Published: February 7, 2005 ethlehem, Pa. — IN the wake of the recent lawsuits over the teaching of Darwinian evolution, there has been a rush to debate the merits of the rival theory of intelligent design. As one of the scientists who have proposed design as an explanation for biological systems, I have found widespread confusion about what intelligent design is and what it is not. Advertisement First, what it isn't: the theory of intelligent design is not a religiously based idea, even though devout people opposed to the teaching of...
  • hysterical Darwinites panic

    01/28/2005 4:28:41 PM PST · by metacognative · 2,296 replies · 20,995+ views
    crosswalk ^ | 2004 | creationist
    Panicked Evolutionists: The Stephen Meyer Controversy The theory of evolution is a tottering house of ideological cards that is more about cherished mythology than honest intellectual endeavor. Evolutionists treat their cherished theory like a fragile object of veneration and worship--and so it is. Panic is a sure sign of intellectual insecurity, and evolutionists have every reason to be insecure, for their theory is falling apart. The latest evidence of this panic comes in a controversy that followed a highly specialized article published in an even more specialized scientific journal. Stephen C. Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science...
  • Unsurvival of Unfit Theory

    01/05/2005 8:26:58 AM PST · by metacognative · 57 replies · 824+ views
    discovery.org ^ | Jan. 5. 2005 | discovery institute
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SEATTLE, JAN. 4 — The misreporting of the evolution issue is the focus for the new blog Evolution News & Views, www.evolutionnews.org, maintained by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture (CSC). “The legacy media seem to have rediscovered the evolution controversy with the recent lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Georgia,” says Rob Crowther, CSC director of communications. “The problem is that many reporters are sadly uninformed about the issue which has resulted in much of the news coverage being sloppy, inaccurate, and often overtly biased. “There’s nobody else in the blogosphere right now holding the media accountable for how...
  • double 'Five easy Pieces' against the Darwinites

    Evolution
  • Will Gould R.I.P?

    05/20/2002 7:09:58 PM PDT · by metacognative · 95 replies · 55+ views
    foxnews ^ | May 20'02 | metacognative
    Has Stephan Jay reverted to consequentless atoms? Or is he discovering the Creator?