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IDnet Announces Establishment of IDnet of Ohio

Shawnee Mission, KS. - IDnet announced that it had re-established its Ohio division through an office in Cincinnati. The new division will be managed under the direction of attorney Roddy M. Bullock. Mr. Bullock was also elected to the IDnet Board of Directors and IDnet Executive Committee at a special meeting of the Board on October 15.

IDnet currently has offices in Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Minneapolis. The reopening of its Ohio office reflects a renewed interest in furthering institutional objectivity in teaching origins science in Ohio schools.

In addition to practicing patent law with a Fortune 100 corporation in Cincinnati, Mr. Bullock is a degreed mechanical engineer (BSME and JD from The University of Texas, Austin) and an author. Married with four children raised in public schools, Mr. Bullock has a passion for excellence in science education in Ohio and around the nation.

"I am excited about helping the citizens of Ohio capitalize on the outstanding work accomplished by others over the few years to permit teachers to open up the classroom discussion about origins," said Mr. Bullock. "Although great progress has been made by people dedicated to excellence in science education, a kind of scientific fundamentalism continues to hinder Ohio teachers from teaching Darwinism fully and honestly. That is not healthy for good science or good science education," continued Bullock. "We need to take fear out of the biology classroom and empower teachers to candidly discuss both sides of the current scientific controversy over evolution."

"The new science is generating an exciting new 21st century perspective on origins. 20st Century concepts of random mutation and natural selection are being replaced by new ways of looking at a genome that exhibits indescribably complex information processing systems," said John Calvert. "The old way of thinking about origins is going to need major revision as the new data is changing the way we think about both the operation and evolution of the genome."

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Intelligent Design network, inc. is a nonprofit national organization that seeks institutional objectivity in origins science. Intelligent design is a scientific disagreement with claims that the apparent design of certain natural phenomena is an illusion that can be adequately explained by random mutation and natural selection. Objectivity is necessary because many institutions systematically suppress any objective consideration of that disagreement.

It continues to amaze us how writers can keep on misrepresenting what ID actually is, conflating it with Biblical creationism. In a Yahoo News article by Lisa Anderson Tribune, it is reported that efforts continue by museums around the country to legitimize Darwinism at all costs.

Mentioning the Dover PA trial, the tired phrase that the school board wants to teach ID is restated. In that school district the proposal is for a short statement to be read in 9th grade biology classes saying that ID is another theory of origins, and the student can look at a book in the library if they wish to do so. That hardly constitutes "teaching" ID.