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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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 Posted - 07/17/2007 : 16:39:03
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Think the whackos are on the way out the door after the blistering they got in Dover? Think again. History shows that when whatever strategy these folks are using fails them, they just switch to a new strategy.
See The Panda's Thumb for details on this unsurprising turn of events, perhaps coming soon to a ninth-grade biology class near you.
(Buried in the comments is a visit from the author of the new, uh, "textbook.")
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 17:20:03 [Permalink]
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So the DI is going to push Creationism through "Explore Evolution," using the old "all ideas are equal" argument, eh? Unless the Supremes allow this, it's just another step in their defeat, I think. They push an increasingly covert (and watered-down) Creationism in a desperate search for something they can get away with forcing down kids' throats, using tax dollars to defeat "materialist science."
Seriously, the the FSM folks need to launch a campaign to get their alternative to Darwinism taught in schools. Only when there is a real threat that elements of non-Christian religion will be taught in public schools, will the Creationists begin to consider how wise the Founding Fathers were to establish the Constitution under secular principles.
I believe/hope that Ahmanson's billions will not buy the victory of an anti-science, right-wing theocracy.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 07/17/2007 : 20:15:52 [Permalink]
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Paul Nelson's comment. "I'll find out from the DI webmaster what needs to be done to set up open discussion threads there."
Explore Evolution
“Explore Evolution will improve the teaching of evolution by providing teachers and students with more information about evolution than they are likely to find in any other textbook written at the same level.” John West
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Of course it will. 
With an unbiased focus on the gaps. Gaps both real and imagined, and as reliable as a YEC can be when it comes to biology.
edited: typos. big ugly ones.
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| Edited by - moakley on 07/17/2007 20:17:03 |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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The evolution of antievolutionism
