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12/08/04

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Battle in the Biology Class

In the Christian Science Monitor, correspondent Randy Dotinga summarizes the battle of ideas between the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), the Institute for Creation Research (ICR), and the Discovery Institute (DI).

Leaders at NCSE complain that they are being outfunded by the other side, but The Discovery Institute's Bruce Chapman scoffs at Eugenie Scott's "preposterous" claims of underfunding. "There's huge bucks in evolution studies at every major university in the country," says Chapman. "We're up against a whole Darwinist establishment."

Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, who battled efforts to change the teaching of evolution in her local school district says the debate revolves around "the religious right's dislike of secular education and secular society."

Once again, does it ever occur to the secularists that the religious right recognizes the controversy about Darwinism in scientific circles, and would like students to know about this controversy?

The author of this piece describes the debate as science vs religion, when it is actually science vs science. Once this false dichotomy is overcome, the tide of ID may advance even faster.

For the full article, click HERE.

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