[gobucks]

The chief executive of Christian Schools Australia, Stephen O'Doherty, says it is inevitable other schools will follow suit.

I've always wondered why I found Aussies so likable; but I have another reason to like G.W. Bush - he doesn't just change things for the better here ... he has positive impact everywhere.

[gobucks]

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[Dark Knight]

Too bad. NS should be taught as a theory with warts and very limited utility.

DK

[maica]

The chief executive of Christian Schools Australia, Stephen O'Doherty, says it is inevitable other schools will follow suit. Until last month, few Australians had heard of it. But debate broke out internationally on August 1 when the US President, George Bush, told reporters he supported combining lessons on evolution with discussion of intelligent design. "Both sides ought to be properly taught," Bush said.

And many of his critics right here on FR moan regularly that he is not speaking out enough.

Here is an example of the effect one little sentence has made.

[ml1954]

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[ohioWfan]

Religious neo-conservatives?? Betcha most ID'ers are long time, REAL conservatives....

I'm with you on Bush's impact in this. He stood for academic freedom instead of the leftist monopoly over education, and it's clearly rippling on the other side of the world.

[ml1954]

Of late, leading scientists have rebuffed intelligent design.

'Of late'? Now that's an understatement.

[bahblahbah]

Christian schools should make a mention of it and some of the philosophical explanations around genesis but there's no need for it in public schools.

[bahblahbah]

And the Darwinists might get something out of the IDers study of the complexity of biological systems.

[Verginius Rufus]

Australians have a federal system. If they're having trouble with Darwin, that should be handled by the local authorities or by the government of the Northern Territory.

[indcons]

Ping

[GretchenM]

fyi

[blowfish]

Anyone using Bush as a science advisor is in a big, big world of hurt. There's no evidence Bush knows the slightest bit about science.

[shuckmaster]

Well, Australia has never been known for scientific advances anyway. There's no reason to expect them to emerge from the dark ages now.

[monkey]

Robert Frost - Design

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

[Thumper1960]

The logical conclusion to the battle between Evolutionism and Creationism is going to be the abandonment or the retention of religion based moral codes. Without the moral codes which have served humanity well for millenia, the chaos of Evolutionist "rule of the jungle" will doom civilization.

After all, without the basis of morality, it's really all about the id.

[Stultis]

but I have another reason to like G.W. Bush - he doesn't just change things for the better here ... he has positive impact everywhere

Yep. This has demonstrated that there's no need to spend millions and billions doing time consuming and tedious research to settle scientific issues. They can be settled by politics and propaganda! Gee, I guess the Nazis and Stalin had the right idea all along. When will the textbooks with the Nazi theories of the hollow earth (hohlweltlehre) and the "Cosmic Ice Theory" (Welteislehre or "WEL") be coming out?

[curiosity]

I'm speachless. I always thought the Aussies were too cynical and practically minded to fall for ID.

[Doc Savage]

The trouble with Darwin is that all his sychophant followers can't prove his theory because Macro-Evolution never happened. One of the few instances still remaining in history in which blind and deluded followers who know it is only theory continue to treat the subject as de facto science. Bbbbwwwaahhhhaaaaaaa!

[Just mythoughts]

"The brawl between evolutionists and religious neo-conservatives over how life began is coming down to the survival of the slickest."

I need not read the evolutionists comments, I keep continually being told that evolution is not about how life began. Evolution is not about "abiogenesis". (snicker)

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

students at Pacific Hills Christian School have begun learning about intelligent design in science classes.

Unicorns and Leprechauns 101 soon to follow.