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Tony Pennington, of the Norman Transcript, reports that a proposed OU congressional resolution to oppose House Bill 2107 failed Tuesday as the University of Oklahoma Student Association Undergraduate Student Congress put down the measure 16-13.

Filed by Rep. Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City), HB 2107 would allow Oklahoma public school teachers the "affirmative right and freedom to present scientific information pertaining to the full range of scientific views in any curricula or course of learning." The bill also states teachers would not face termination, discrimination or discipline for presenting their views. Students would be evaluated on the information but not "penalized" for agreeing with a "particular position on scientific views." The bill recently passed in the House and is on its way to the state Senate.

OU resolution authors Pouya "Rod" Jahromi, 19, and Kamrin Grissom, 20, oppose Kern's bill and claim it would leave classrooms to the discretion of individual educators and provide for an inconsistent educational experience.

Considering where the talk is taking place, and the title (which includes Intelligent Design Creationism), this will likely be decidedly anti-ID, similar to Lawrence Krauss.

But, it will, perhaps, be a good opportunity to turn the audience's ear and set the record straight on a few things in the question and answer session.

The State reports that the state Board of Education voted to reject a challenge to how evolution is taught in South Carolina high schools.

The state board upheld its previous evolution-only science curriculum for 10th grade biology. Last month, the state's Education Oversight Committee voted to add the phrase "critically analyze" to the evolution guidelines.

So, once again a state has caved to the Darwinism worldview, which is what it is. How long will Darwinists be able to play the religion v. science card, before people wise up, and realize that this debate is worldview v. worldview??? How long will they be able to put their fingers in the dike, before it breaks apart in one final burst??? Education...education...education. When clear thinking prevails, the battle will be won.

This article by Andrew Herrmann of the Chicago Sun-Times is TOO good to pass up.

He reports on the comments of the president of the Field Museum. John McCarter warns that efforts to add the religion-driven "intelligent design" theory to school science classes threaten America's position as a technological leader. Everything in science is based now on evolution.

A reality check is in order here. My profession, meteorology, is based on Darwinism???

He also said that "We have to say (Bible accounts of creation) are stories done at that time by people trying to understand the complexity of the world."

Might I suggest in a similar vein that Darwinism is the same, a just-so story; a materialist's fairy tale???

Read the entire article and see how many materialist talking points you see, along with the conflation of ID with Creationism.

Kimberly Hefling, of the AP, reports that Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum wrote the foreword for a new book praising a retired law professor sometimes called the father of the intelligent-design movement.

The book, "Darwin's Nemesis: Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement," consists of 18 essays honoring Johnson's work, according to the publisher, InterVarsity Press. It was edited by William A. Dembski, and is available in April.

A story picked up by the Discovery Institute shows that over two-thirds of Americans belief that the weaknesses of Darwinism should be taught in public schools.

Among the biggest supporters are 18-29 year-olds (88%), 73% of Republicans, and 74% of independent voters. Others who strongly support this approach include African-Americans (69%), 35-54 year-olds (70%) and 60% of Democrats.

In the National Review Online, Andy Smarick, gives a cogent treatment of the debate on Darwinism v. ID, and the proper place of both in the marketplace of ideas and in the classroom.