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Diane Carroll of the Kansas City Star reported that hundreds filed into Schlagle High School in Kansas City, Kan., for the first public hearing on proposed revisions to the Kansas science standards. Individuals spoke before a committee charged with presenting a proposal to the Kansas Board of Education.

One ID proponent said that “Our students are not being taught to think. Why do you feel so threatened when asked to teach all the scientific evidence?”

Those on the other side of the debate, in principle, said that intelligent design has no place in a science classroom, because it would allow for non-natural, or supernatural, explanations for what is observed in the world. Science, by its nature, allows only natural explanations.

In my view, methodological naturalism is the problem. But, the more the general public hears that this definition of science is out there, the quicker this narrowing view on reality will be exposed. Then, perhaps, we can more easily follow the evidence where it leads, and not be stifled by MN.

For the full story, click HERE.

An editorial in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology doesn't get it right.

One "misunderstanding" is that Dover, Pennsylvania is "limiting" the teaching of Darwin's theory. Actually, we want more to be taught about evolution, and its shortcomings.

The editorial also claims that "Darwin's theory of evolution is silent on the 'origin of living things' − that is, how life on earth began." The twin pillars of materialism are that life sprung from non-living materials, and then diversified via ascent by mutation and natural selection. If this is true, then abiogenesis must be explained naturalistically. The monumental kickoff of life has not been demonstrated, and Darwin's theory is sorely lacking across many fronts.

Darwinists cannot just sweep annoying problems under the rug which are easily seen by most, than expect us to believe what they tell us.

For the full editorial, click, HERE.

On the Axis of Logic website (deemed to give us Clarity in the 21st Century Mediaplex) Bob Weitzel of Middleton, Wisconsin, who contributes to The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Freethought Today and on Axis of Logic opines on evolution v creationism.

This is another good example of how the materialists use obfuscation and twisted thinking to attempt to persuade.

One example quote will suffice: "But the hidden agenda of intelligent design's high priests has little to do with understanding the origin and development of life and everything to do with insinuating a fundamentalist Christian ideology into the public square via the public school. Their plan for creating God's kingdom on Earth is known as the Wedge Strategy."

Now I know what we are all about! Thank you for clearing that up Mr. Weitzel.

For the full article, click HERE.

A one day ID Conference will take place at Elizabethtown College, PA on March first. The agenda below:

Intelligent Design
The Scientific, Theological, and Civil Dimensions of the Debate

Tuesday, March 1:

9:00-9:15 Opening remarks by President Long 9:15-9:30 Introduction of topic and speakers by moderator Michael Silberstein

Session I: Scientific Dimensions

9:30-10:15 Michael Behe
Professor of Biochemistry, Lehigh University, author of Darwin's Black Box.
America's best known advocate of intelligent design 10:15-11:00 Niall Shanks Professor of Philosophy, East Tennessee State University, author of God, the Devil, and Darwin. A leading critic of intelligent design.
11:00-11:10 Behe rebuttal
11:10-11:20 Shanks rebuttal
11:20-11:40 Questions from the audience
11:40-12:45 Lunch

Session II: Theological Dimensions

12:45-1:30 Rev. Dave Martin
Senior Pastor, Evangelical Free Church, Hershey, PA, author of Trinity: A Century of Training Christian Leaders.
1:30-2:15 Jack Haught
Professor of Theology, Georgetown University, author of God After Darwin and Deeper than Darwin.
2:15-2:25 Martin rebuttal
2:25-2:35 Haught rebuttal
2:35-2:50 Questions from the audience

2:50-3:00 Break

Session III: Civil and Legal Dimensions

3:00-3:45 Richard Thompson
President and Chief Counsel, Thomas More Law Center, Ann Arbor MI, who will represent the Dover school district in an upcoming lawsuit.
3:45-4:30 Vic Walczak
Legal Director, Greater Pittsburgh Chapter of the ACLU Foundation of Pennsylvania,oneof the attorneys filing the federal lawsuit.
4:30-4:40 Thompson rebutta l
4:40-4:50 Walczak rebutta l
4:50-5:05 Questions from the audience
5:05-5:40 Questions from the audience for the entire panel

5:40-7:30 Dinner

7:30-7:40 Opening remarks by President Long
7:40-7:45 Moderator Michael Silberstein introduces the speaker

Session IV: Evening Capstone Lecture

7:45-8:45 Paul Gross
University Professor of Life Sciences,emeritus,University of Virginia, co-author of Higher Superstitions and Creationism's Trojan Horse.
8:45-9:00 Questions from the other speakers for Gross (panel) 9:00-9:30 Questions from the audience for Gross

Michael Silberstein , Director
Elizabethtown College Center for Science and Religion Elizabethtown College Elizabethtown, PA17022
Email: silbermd@etown.edu
Phone: 717.361.1253

Cornelia Dean of The New York Times, reports that many school teachers just avoid the teaching of evolution in classrooms.

Ms. Dean of the Times asserts that "there is no credible scientific challenge to the idea that all living things evolved from common ancestors, that evolution on earth has been going on for billions of years and that evolution can be and has been tested and confirmed by the methods of science."

Okay, now that we have merely stated our opinion and "dispatched" ID, let's just move on.

For the full article, click HERE.

Jerry Adler of Newsweek gives a fair and balanced portrayal of the evolution v intelligent design controversy.

For the full article, click HERE.

Dianne Carroll of the Kansas City Star reports on proposals to the Kansas State Board of Education's science standards.

William Harris, a medical-school professor from Prairie Village supports intelligent design. He claims that Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't always add up, and students should hear more about its shortcomings.

“There are only two options,” said Harris, who is leading this year's fight. “Life was either designed or it wasn't.”

That's not the point, evolution defenders reply. Science is about searching for natural explanations of the world, they say, and has no room for a theory based on faith.

And herein lies the problem. Evolutionists claim that there can be NO evidence for an intelligent designer. We suppose all forensic science should, thus, be deemed "non-scientific?"

Wording changes in the standards to "follow the evidence where it leads" are being proposed.

For the full story, click HERE.