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Casey's op-ed piece in the Washington Examiner.

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Ad hominem attacks do serve as conversation stoppers when the other side has nothing to offer. Well done Casey!

In ENV, Casey Luskin writes on the landmark Epperson v. Arkansas, the first case regarding the teaching of evolution to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision was handed down in 1968, where the Court effectively declared it illegal to ban the teaching of evolution.

An informative summary and commentary can be viewed by clicking HERE.

As reported by Troy Anderson, for the Los Angeles Daily News, a brouhaha has erupted in Los Angeles County over a planned series of events exploring the conflict between his theories and "intelligent design" advocates.
A group that favors "intelligent design" had planned to premier a new documentary film at the California Science Center in Los Angeles later this month, but the center later canceled the event.

The group claims the cancellation was an act of censorship, made after the center was pressured by the Smithsonian Institution, but the center chalked it up to a contract issue, without elaborating.

Coined "The Darwin Debates: A Forum for Dialogue," the nonprofit American Freedom Alliance had planned to premier a new Illustra Media documentary, "Darwin's Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Explosion," at the California Science Center on Oct. 25.

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Troy Anderson's definition of ID at the very end of the article, is really quite lame, and shows his lack of understanding of the scientific endeavours of pursuit of ID.

Sean P. Harris, for the Austin Independent Examiner, reported that Governor Rick Perry announced his appointment of board member Gail Lowe to replace Don McLeroy as chairperson of the Texas State Board of Education. Gail Lowe is a Lampasas newspaper editor and has been a member of the State Board of Education since 2002. She is also a proponent of Intelligent Design.

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Cornelius Hunter blogs on "Evolution Wins Out in Hong Kong Curriculum".

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Darwinists believe that all they need to do to dispatch with ID is to assert it is not science. They may think, "There...now that was easy." I suppose the historic sciences (forensic, SETI, etc.) are not science either. You can't have it both ways, yet they get away with it all the time.

In ENV...a science test given last month to thousands of teenagers in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. One question asked students to compare Darwinian evolutionary theories with Lamarckian evolutionary theory, the theory of intelligent design and Biblical creationism.

"Unlike creationism, intelligent design is an inference from scientific evidence, not a deduction from religious authority," countered Meyer. "Intelligent design proposes that certain features of the universe and life are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection."

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As reported by Beb Leach in the London Telegraph, Prof. Richard Dawkins, the prominent atheist, has helped set up an atheist summer camp where children will be taught rational scepticism and sing John Lennon's Imagine...

The author of "The God Delusion", who stepped down from his post at Oxford University last year, has subsidised the five-day camp in Somerset.

Camp-goers will be given lessons in rational scepticism, as well as sessions in moral philosophy and evolutionary biology.

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Now, let me get this straight...according to the atheist, when Christians "propagandize" children regarding God, it's a form of child "abuse", but when Richard Dawkins propagandizes children regarding atheism, it is just wonderful "truth-telling".

Terrance Stutz, for the Dallas Morning News, writes that the Senate rejected Republican Don McLeroy's nomination as chairman of the State Board of Education on Thursday after Democrats decried his lack of leadership and "endless culture wars" over evolution and other volatile topics.

Sen. Leticia Van de Putte said that the State Board of Education has become a 'laughingstock of the nation' under nearly two years of Don McLeroy's leadership.Along strict party lines, the Senate voted 19-11 for McLeroy, but a two-thirds majority was required. One Democrat abstained from the vote.

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Apparently, the way you end the culture war is to "eliminate" the enemy, silencing all dissent to your worldview. Hardly the American Way.

Fox News Reports that a federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism "superstitious nonsense" during a classroom lecture.

U.S. District Judge James Selna issued the ruling Friday after a 16-month legal battle between student Chad Farnan and his former teacher, James Corbett.

Farnan sued in U.S. District Court in 2007, alleging that Corbett violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by making repeated comments in class that were hostile to Christian beliefs.

The lawsuit cited more than 20 statements made by Corbett during one day of class, all of which were recorded by Farnan, to support allegations of a broader teaching method that "favors irreligion over religion" and made Christian students feel uncomfortable.

During the course of the litigation, the judge found that most of the statements cited in the court papers did not violate the First Amendment because they did not refer directly to religion or were appropriate in the context of the classroom lecture.

But Selna ruled Friday that one comment, where Corbett referred to creationism as "religious, superstitious nonsense," did violate Farnan's constitutional rights.

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And the lawsuit ruling...

Eugenie Scott is scheduled to be on NPR this Good Friday, with host Ira Flatow to discuss the Texas education situation. For more information,

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