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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSOhio board OKs criticism of evolutionDecision called 'victory for common sense' over 'scientific dogmatism' Posted: March 10, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Ohio State Board of Education voted 13-5 yesterday to approve a model lesson plan that takes a critical look at Darwinian evolution. The 10th-grade biology lesson plan, called a "Critical Analysis of Evolution," was created to implement a benchmark in the state science standards that requires students to be able to "Describe how scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory." "The board's decision is a significant victory for students and their academic...

<p>Engineer Joe White ought to know an intelligent design when he sees one. By day, on the job at Boeing, White has worked on some of the world's best-built airplanes: the F-15, the F-18, and these days, the C-17 cargo jet.</p>

Irreducible Complexity is an Obstacle to Darwinism Even if Parts of a System have other Functions:A Response to Sharon Begley’s Wall Street Journal Column Michael J. BeheDiscovery InstituteFebruary 18, 2004 In a recent column in the Wall Street Journal (February 13, 2004, Science Journal, page B1, “Evolution Critics Come Under Fire for Flaws In 'Intelligent Design'”) science writer Sharon Begley repeated some false claims about the concept of irreducible complexity (IC) that have been made by Darwinists, in particular by Kenneth Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University. After giving a serviceable description in her column of why...

<p>Even before Darwin, critics attacked the idea of biological evolution with one or another version of, "Evolve this!"</p> <p>Whether they invoked a human, an eye, or the whip-like flagella that propel bacteria and sperm, the contention that natural processes of mutation and natural selection cannot explain the complexity of living things has been alive and well for 200 years.</p>

CNN reported, “A new book offering a non-evolutionist view of how the Grand Canyon was formed, featuring essays from 23 scientists (most with PhD's, many having conducted serious geological scientific research at the Canyon), is the object of an intense book-banning effort by leading evolutionists. They have demanded that Grand Canyon National Park remove the book, Grand Canyon: A Different View, from bookstores within the Park. The book, which claims the famous area can be no older than a few thousand years (contrary to the claims of traditional secular science, which contends the canyon is millions of years old), was...

<p>January 31, 2004 -- ATLANTA - Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday blasted a top Georgia education official's bid to strip the word "evolution" from textbooks in some of the state's public schools. Kathy Cox, Georgia's school superintendent, has come under fire for suggesting that science books used in the state's middle and high schools carry the term "biological changes over time" instead of "evolution."</p>