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06/18/05
Greenville (SC) senator challenging standard for teaching evolution
State Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville is advocating that S.C. schools teach more than Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution. Fair plans to push for his latest idea to modify standards for teaching science, particularly in high schools.
Public school students, he said, should be told a “full range of scientific views ... exist. We must have our eyes wide open on these issues. What I’m saying is let’s give the whole story. Let the kids make up their own minds. Don’t be afraid of the truth.”
Fair is lead sponsor of a bill filled June 1, a day before the Legislature adjourned, that puts the issue in play when lawmakers return to work in January.
For more by Bill Robinson in The State, click HERE.
Charles Townes on evolution, intelligent design, and the meaning of life
Religion and science, according to Charles Townes, winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics and a UC Berkeley professor in the Graduate School, they are united by similar goals: science seeks to discern the laws and order of our universe; religion, to understand the universe's purpose and meaning, and how humankind fits into both.
Townes has been exploring for many of his 89 years, and in March his insights were honored with the 2005 Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities. Worth about $1.5 million, the Templeton Prize recognizes those who, throughout their lives, have sought to advance ideas and/or institutions that will deepen the world's understanding of God and of spiritual realities.
Embedded within this interesting article and interview of Townes by Bonnie Azab Powell in the UC Berkeley News Online is an unsurprising statistic that 56 percent of those surveyed at UC Berkeley believe in Darwinism, as compared with 13 percent of those surveyed across the U.S.
For the full article, click HERE.
Evolution on the Front Line - AAAS and ID
Under the title of "Guarding the Integrity of Science in Classrooms"
AAAS is countering efforts to "teach the controversy" in U.S. public school science classrooms.
Of course, the organization says, what controversy? All genuine scientists are in lockstep agreement.
On their website, resources include an informational Q&A on evolution and intelligent design and commentary including an op-ed piece on the State of Kansas Board of Education evolution hearings.
For some "enlightenment", compliments AAAS, click HERE.
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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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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.
- 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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