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12/04/12

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Teaching evolution key to free school funding deal

As reported by the BBC...Failing to teach evolution by natural selection in science lessons could lead to new free schools losing their funding under government changes.

The new rules state that from 2013, all free schools in England must teach evolution as a "comprehensive and coherent scientific theory".

The move follows scientists' concerns that free schools run by creationists might avoid teaching evolution.

Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, said he was "delighted".

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Permalinkby 08:48:48 pm, Categories: Education, 117 words   English (US)

On the Prospect of Intelligent Design in Montana Public Schools, Let Us Be Clear

In ENV...A newly elected Montana lawmaker, Rep. Clayton Fiscus, has filed a request with legislative services for a draft bill that would, if passed into law, put intelligent design into Montana's public schools. The news caught the notice of the Huffington Post and our friends at the National Center for Science Education.

As in the past, let's be clear: However well intentioned this draft bill request, the best place for mulling intelligent design is in the labs and lecture halls that host the scientific community and its activity, and in books and journals read by scientists and non-scientists alike - not in public schools, statehouses or courtrooms, as these tend to turn science into politics.

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Defending the Science of Intelligent Design at the Seattle Analytic Philosophy Club

Casey Luskin in ENV...Discovery Institute staff members attended the Seattle Analytic Philosophy Club at their invitation to discuss the question "Is Intelligent Design Science?" There were about 25 people there. Though the group was mostly hostile to ID, everyone was respectful and civil, and it was an enjoyable discussion.

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    Don Cicchetti blogs on: Culture, Music, Faith, Intelligent Design, Guitar, Audio

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  • Creation/Evolution Quotes

    Australian biologist Stephen E. Jones maintains one of the best origins "quote" databases around. He is meticulous about accuracy and working from original sources.

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    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.

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    Complete zipped downloadable pdf copy of David Stove's devastating, and yet hard-to-find, critique of neo-Darwinism entitled "Darwinian Fairytales"

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    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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