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11/30/04
Anti-evolution Teachings Gain Foothold in U.S. Schools
The San Francisco Chronicle's Anna Badkhen reports on the growing tide of the ID movement and creationism in public schools.
"There's a constant impetus by conservative evangelical Christians to bring religion back into the public schools," said Witold Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania branch of the American Civil Liberties Union."
Patricia Nason at the Institute for Creation Research, the world leader in creation science, said her organization and other activist groups are encouraging people who share conservative religious beliefs to seek positions on local school boards.
"The movement is to get the truth out," Nason said. "We Christians have as much right to be involved in politics as evolutionists. We've been asleep for two generations, and it's time for us to come back."
While ICR is quite clear on the identity of the intelligent designer, the ID movement does not specifically identify the designer.
Eugenie Scott of NCSE says "The religious right has a list of topics that it wants action on. Things like abortion, abstinence, gays are higher up in the food chain of their concern, but evolution is part of the package."
For the full article, click HERE.
National Geographic Shoots Itself in the Foot—Again!
An extensive response to the National Geographic article "Was Darwin Wrong" has been offered by the organization Apologetics Press.
Dr. Bert Thompson and Dr. Brad Harrub provide detailed rebuttals to the many tired claims of organic evolution put forth by David Quammen.
National Geographic seems to have misstepped again by being woefully behind on the current topics.
For the full discussion, click HERE.
Highly Conserved Non-Coding Sequences Are Associated with Vertebrate Development
The evidence continues to mount that the non-coding sequences of DNA serve vital functions, instead of the Darwinist claims that they are "junk" DNA. It may be time for molecular biologists who advocate an ID interpretation of the facts to appeal to major journals to withhold judgment on DNA sequences whose function has yet to be determined.
For the full article in PLoS Biology, click HERE.
School Science Debate has Evolved
Laura Parker, writing for USA Today, chronicles recent developments in the debate over origins.
Because of a requirement in the federal No Child Left Behind law that states must review science standards over the next two years, the debate is likely to further heat up.
Eugenie Scott, director of NCSE, thinks that the new approach is politically smart.
"They have no science," Scott says. "But they can argue to the American public that it's only fair to teach alternative science theories or evidence against evolution."
To say that ID has no science to back up its claims is over the top.
For the full article, click HERE.
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A blogger from New England offers his intelligent reasoning.
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We are a group of individuals, coming from diverse backgrounds and not speaking for any organization, who have found common ground around teleological concepts, including intelligent design. We think these concepts have real potential to generate insights about our reality that are being drowned out by political advocacy from both sides. We hope this blog will provide a small voice that helps rectify this situation.
- The Design Inference - The Writings of William A. Dembski
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Website dedicated to comparing scenes from the "Inherit the Wind" movie with factual information from actual Scopes Trial. View 37 clips from the movie and decide for yourself if this movie is more fact or fiction.
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- A Brief View of Time and Those That Live There
Don Cicchetti blogs on: Culture, Music, Faith, Intelligent Design, Guitar, Audio
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Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.
- CreationEvolutionDesign
Most guys going through midlife crisis buy a convertible. Austrialian Stephen E. Jones went back to college to get a biology degree and is now a proponent of ID and common ancestry.
- Darwinian Fairytales by David Stove
Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"
- ID The Future
Intelligent Design The Future is a multiple contributor weblog whose participants include the nation's leading design scientists and theorists: biochemist Michael Behe, mathematician William Dembski, astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, philosophers of science Stephen Meyer, and Jay Richards, philosopher of biology Paul Nelson, molecular biologist Jonathan Wells, and science writer Jonathan Witt. Posts will focus primarily on the intellectual issues at stake in the debate over intelligent design, rather than its implications for education or public policy.
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A Philosopher's Journey: Political and cultural reflections of John Mark N. Reynolds. Dr. Reynolds is Director of the Torrey Honors Institute at
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