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SEATTLE, MAY 3 – Recent California voters overwhelmingly support teaching the scientific evidence both for and against Darwin’s theory of evolution, according to two new surveys conducted by Arnold Steinberg & Associates. The surveys address the issue of how best to teach evolution, which increasingly is under deliberation by state and local school districts in California and around the nation. The first survey was a random sample of 551 California voters living in a household in which at least one voter voted in the November 2002 general election and the October 2003 special election for governor. When asked: “Which statement...

Indeed, evolutionists are increasingly outraged over intelligent design, especially over its cultural and political inroads. To appreciate the extent of the outrage, check out the anti-ID blog at www.pandasthumb.org. Paul Myers, a contributor to that blog, captures the spirit of the day: The verdict is in. Intelligent Design creationism is a load of horseshit. What has happened is that the movement has made some inroads solely in the political and legal arenas, where the absence of a scientific basis for the belief is little handicap, and now scientists are rousing themselves to point out its glaring deficiencies. This is not...

Theorist: Darwin had it wrong S.C. professor says life forms arose without common origin By Daniel Conover, the (Charleston) Post and Courier CHARLESTON, S.C. - In the beginning, it was just the proteins. The way biochemist Christian Schwabe saw it, Darwinian evolution should have given closely related animals similar sets of proteins. It was a simple idea, just a way to prove the cellular legacy of millions of years of common ancestry. Only it didn’t work. The mismatched proteins were just a stray thread in the grand tapestry of life, yet the flaw gnawed at the back of the professor’s...

Protein Sequences: Not So Predictable After All March 4, 2004 -- Scientists have believed for decades that the sequencing of the human genome would automatically yield the sequences of proteins, the functional products of genes, and thus lead to the unraveling of the mechanisms behind human cell biology and disease. However, a paper published in Science today by the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) describes a novel cellular process that casts some doubt on the accepted paradigm of deducing a protein’s sequence from the DNA sequence of its gene. When a protein is called upon to act in a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (CNHI) — The Oklahoma House passed a bill Monday that would require public school textbooks that discuss evolution to include a disclaimer stating that it is a controversial theory and not fact. Rep. Bill Graves successfully included the language in House Bill 2194, a measure that originally changed the format for Braille versions of instructional materials. “I think so many of the textbooks make it appear that evolution is a scientific fact and it’s not,” said Graves, R-Oklahoma City. “Even the U.S. Supreme Court says it’s a theory, so I was just trying to make that clear. “I...

State Board votes on creation issue ELIMINATING ERRORS: Evolution becomes topic of concern for voters. by Andrew Bell November 10, 2003 On Friday the Texas State Board of Education voted to adopt Chief Deputy Commissioner of the Texas Education Agencys Robert Scott's, recommendation for the elimination of factual errors in high school and advanced placement biology textbooks. The vote required that all remaining factual errors in the textbook be addressed and identified by the publishers before the textbooks can be printed, Robert Crowther of the Discovery Institute said. The vote is a step in the right direction of helping teach...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Army ants, nature's ultimate coalition task force, strike their prey en masse in a blind, voracious column and pay no attention to the conventional wisdom of evolutionary biologists. The common scientific belief has been that army ants originated separately on several continents over millions of years. Now it is found there was no evolution. Using fossil data and the tools of a genetics detective, a Cornell University entomologist has discovered that these ants come from the same point of origin, because since the reign of the dinosaurs, about 100 million years ago, army ants in essence have...

At 10:17PM channel 2 in Seattle (NWCN), reported on it's "Breaking News" that three flight attendants were sent to a local hospital from Seatac with an unidentified illness. They also said that one has been released to go home. Since then, they haven't provided any more information. Nothing follows.

At first they blamed pigeons. Birds had been spotted flying around the horn shaped antenna at Bell Laboratories. There had even been remnants of a nest. The house-sized antenna, designed to received signals from Telstar and other satellites in the 60's, was reinspected and swept clean, but the problem continued. Still, a loud static sound emitted from laboratory receivers at very high frequencies. The static came and went, loud, and then soft. It was present no matter which direction or angle the antenna was positioned. Gradually, engineers noted that it occurred in a cycle that repeated every 23 hours and...

<p>WASHINGTON — Cyber-policy guru and Congress' chief anti-terror cop said Tuesday he fully expects another terrorist attack on the homeland, but added he opposes knee-jerk security measures that do little real good while infringing greatly on civil liberties.</p> <p>Former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore, now the head of a congressionally appointed anti-terror commission, told an audience at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., that a national ID card would be "too creepy for me."</p>