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Posted on 06/13/2006 8:13:19 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The state Education Oversight Committee approved high school biology standards Monday that require students to "critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory."
The wording of standards had caused an impasse between the committee and the state Board of Education.
Education Board members and state Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum worried the change would open the door to teaching alternative theories such as intelligent design.
Under the wording approved Monday, students would have to understand how scientists use data to critically analyze the theory.
"Scientific inquiry is taught at every grade level and in every discipline," Education Department spokesman Jim Foster said. "It does not require students to study alternatives to evolution that are decidedly out of the mainstream."
Monday's unanimous vote to approve the standards without more controversial wording came with almost no discussion and there was no mention of evolution.
"I cannot see this as anything other than a victory," said Casey Luskin, a spokesman for Discovery Institute, a Seattle, Wash.-based think tank that encourages critical analysis of evolution. "Students will now learn the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution."
Both the Education Board and the oversight committee had to approve the biology standards before they could be adopted. The standards have to be approved every seven years, meaning the debate could begin again in 2010.
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"Education Board members and state Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum worried the change would open the door to teaching alternative theories such as intelligent design."
Coulter talks about this in her book. Evolution has been disproven over and over. There is no direct proof nor is there any physical evidence that supports evolution.
The only thing Darwin was correct on were his awards for the dumbest stunt of the year resulting in death or dismemberment.
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Will do!
And, like grass through a goose, the results won't be pretty.
You think? Hmmm. I think we should let *them* decide. Others have looked at the available data and have concluded differently.
1. Darwin didn't invent the so-called Darwin Awards"
2. Coulter's advertised ignorance on evolution damages her credibility in other areas.
3. You do not appear to uderstand the subject yourself.
"1. Darwin didn't invent the so-called Darwin Awards" "
I was kidding about Darwin.
"2. Coulter's advertised ignorance on evolution damages her credibility in other areas."
Was she wrong?
"3. You do not appear to uderstand the subject yourself."
You are right. I don't understand it. All I want to know is why when other theories are discussed, Evolutionists go nuts and call the scientists right wing fanatics.
Did something come from a primordial soup? Probably. Then again, Aliens could have put us here or for that matter God could have put us here. It is as plausible an argument as we were all developed from a single cell.
Doesn't matter is Coulter was rightor wrong in other areas; swallowing wholesale anti-science propaganda doesn't help her credibility.
Since you agree that you do not understand evolution, why not study up on it and see why scientists have gone from ignoring the propaganda to opposing it vigorously. Try PatrickHenry's List O' Links for starters.
Since students don't currently learn anything about evolution, the change means they just won't learn anything.
Thank you.
We agree on one thing: you don't understand evolutionary theory.
"We agree on one thing: you don't understand evolutionary theory."
I have no clue nor do I pretend that I do.
As long as the 'theories' presented by the bible-thumpers are subjected to equally vigorous dissection, I have no fears, since none of them can explain the observed physical evidence.
Panic-stricken? I think you may exaggerate slightly.
And your differentiation of:
The push to "evaluate" the theory of evolution is not coming from graduate schools of biology, paleontology, and other related sciences, nor from the technical journals, of which there probably more than a hundred. It is coming from religious groups, and their close affiliates, who hate the results of evolutionary theory, and interpret those results as an attack on their religious beliefs.
If you want to snipe from the sidelines, pretending to have science on your side at one point, then saying "it does NOT mean 'bible-thumpers' will have their beliefs challenged" you are dreaming. Once you force religious belief into the scientific realm, you can expect it to be evaluated scientifically.
(Perhaps you should leave well enough alone?)
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