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12/21/05
How to Overcome Student Objections to Evolution - an indoctrination guide
From Creation-Evolution Headlines comes commentary on a guide on how to win over the reluctant to evolution.
The Dover Intelligent Design Decision, Part I: Of Motive, Effect, and History
Dr. Albert Alschuler, of the School of Law at the University of Chicago, has posted his opinion on Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
He opines, "If fundamentalism still means what it meant in the early twentieth century, however, accepting the Bible as literal truth, the champions of intelligent design are not fundamentalists. They uniformly disclaim reliance on the Book and focus only on where the biological evidence leads. The court’s response – 'well, that’s what they say, but we know what they mean', is uncivil...an illustration of the dismissive and contemptuous treatment that characterizes much contemporary discourse. Once we know who you are, we need not listen. We’ve heard it all already".
This trial was truly not about ID, it was about what one confused judge thinks about ID. The success of ID will not depend on its success in the courtroom, but rather on its success in the scientific realm.
Read on.
Dover Court Establishes State Materialism
A press release concerning the Dover decision from IDnet (Kansas) is available for viewing. The title says it all.
Intelligent Design Has a Place in the Classroom
Commentator Joe Loconto, the William E. Simon Fellow in religion at the Heritage Foundation, gives his opinion on the Dover decision on NPR's All Things Considered. It's definitely worth a listen.
It is God or Darwin
An opinion piece by David Klinghoffer of the Discovery Institute appears in the National Review Online.
Klinghoffer opines by saying that "Tuesday's ruling by a federal judge in Pennsylvania, disparaging intelligent design as a religion-based and therefore false science, raises an important question: If ID is bogus because many of its theorists have religious beliefs to which the controversial critique of Darwinism lends support, then what should we say about Darwinism itself? After all, many proponents of Darwinian evolution have philosophical beliefs to which Darwin lends support.
'We conclude that the religious nature of Intelligent Design would be readily apparent to an objective observer, adult or child,' wrote Judge John E. Jones III in his decision, Kitzmiller v. Dover, which rules that disparaging Darwin's theory in biology class is unconstitutional. Is it really true that only Darwinism, in contrast to ID, represents a disinterested search for the truth, unmotivated by ideology?"
So, according to the judge, Darwinists do NOT have a worldview agenda? Klinghoffer gives many examples of the Darwinist's agenda and disingenuous nature of executing the forced acceptance of their worldview and scientism.
Many have said this ruling was so poor that it may help ID in the long run. It reminds one of the current movie Chronicles of Narnia, where the White Witch and her minions are gleefully dancing after the execution of Aslan. Just wait till tomorrow.
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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.
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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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