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07/12/05
Science standards may change even more in Kansas
The latest on the Kansas State Board of Education science standards...changes are coming.
For the full story by Josh Funk in the Wichita Eagle, click HERE.
Discovery Institute Files Public Records Request in OSU Evolution Academic Freedom Case
The Discovery Institute has filed a public records request with the Ohio State University (OSU) seeking all documents related to Darwinist attacks on OSU doctoral candidate Bryan Leonard. The request was submitted under the Ohio Public Records Act.
In June, Leonard's dissertation defense in the area of science education was suddenly postponed after three Darwinist professors at OSU attacked Leonard's dissertation research because it analyzed how teaching students evidence for and against macroevolution impacted student beliefs. According to a news report in The Columbus Dispatch, the professors admitted at the time that they had not read Leonard's dissertation.
Discovery Institute feels that Leonard may be the target of a payback, since he helped draft Ohio's innovative "Critical Analysis of Evolution" lesson plan adopted last year for use in schools statewide by the Ohio State Board of Education.
For the full story, click HERE.
New Scientist article on ID - disappointing?
Bill Dembski gives some insight into the recent article on ID in the New Scientist.
For information, click HERE.
With nature as authority, evolution will stand or fall
The New York Times reporter Cornelia Dean not only writes "news" stories but dabbles in op-ed pieces as well. It just goes to show why her "news" stories are so bias in the New York Times.
In her op-ed piece in the York Dispatch, she weighs in on the inadequacy of "creationism" and "intelligent design". She says that evolutionists "cite radiocarbon dating to show that Earth is billions of years old, not a few thousand years old, as some creationists would have it". Interesting, because radiocarbon dating can reliably date things that have been alive from around 900 years to 35,000 years ago, perhaps 115,000 years ago as an outer limit. She confuses radiocarbon dating with radiometric dating. We might ask, "What else is Dean confused about?"
One other point. Just because a bunch of scientists named "Steve" think ID is untenable, doesn't mean ID is truly untenable. It means there are alot of scientists named "Steve" who hold to a materialistic world view. The same goes for other scientific and social issues. For instance, something may be legal in a society, but it may be objectively immoral.
At least, from now on, when you read a "news" story from Dean, you know her underlying biases.
For the full op-ed, click HERE.
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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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