Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Not that I think fish have been subject to natural selection over a period any longer than 6,000 years and that their basic anatomical structure is in any way similar to that of my own, I'm just gone fishin'; y'know, indisposed.
The chief lobbyist of the plan to add intelligent design to the Dover (PA) Area School District’s science curriculum has all but disappeared from the scene in recent weeks. School board member Bill Buckingham has been absent from all three public school board meetings this month. On Monday, he missed a special meeting to pick lawyers to defend the curriculum revision he fought so hard for.
The district's lawyers, who have to now defend the curriculum change he ram-rodded through can't even reach him. On roughly Jan 13 (approximately the time the classes will get to discussion of evolution), Biology teachers in this district will have to start incorporating "Pandas to People", a "textbook augmentation" promoting intelligent design that was "donated" to the school district (the district curriculum committee, which is headed by the missing Mr. Buckingham, refuses to name the donors; because of the fact that the books were donated and not purchased, no critical review or vote on them was required), into their Science classes.
Several parents are suing to keep this theology out of science class. They want a restraining order, but the lawyers want a disposition from Mr. Buckingham before going forward. Delay means this theology will be taught as science In Dover Co., PA.
TrackBackMaybe he's busy sewing the 10 commandments onto the sports jacket he wears to school board meetings.
(ducks for cover)
Posted by: Robust McManlyPants at December 27, 2004 12:54 PMAs a father that teaches the connection between creation and evolution in our home, I don't believe that I would want ID to be taught in the schools at this point. If, however, the proposed theory should gain some support in scientific circles, then it should be included (as long as the teacher is wearing that jacket that Robust talks about ;^)
Posted by: VARepublicMan at December 29, 2004 03:00 PM"As a father that teaches the connection between creation and evolution in our home, I don't believe that I would want ID to be taught in the schools"
My sentiments exactly; but because ID is not science (it is predicated on its conclusion) I doubt it will be accepted in scientific circles unless those circles are hijacked. The Dover Co public science curriculum 'arc' within those circles appear to have been already.
arc... appears to have been...
Damn subject - predicate agreement. Sheesh.
Posted by: froz gobo at December 29, 2004 07:47 PMOf course, I am a conservative that finds value in teaching sex ed in schools. Each teaching in its proper place and at its proper time.
Truthfully, I do not see Creation and Evolution as being mutually exclusive. Creation talks about forming man(kind) from dust and then breating life into him. Evolution talks about a gradual adaptation of life from single cell (dust) to multi-cell to sentience to self-awareness(breathing life).
Posted by: VARepublicMan at December 29, 2004 11:29 PMAnd I, as a, well... I don't really fit into too many boxes, now do I? Umm... irreverent sarcastic, maybe?
Anyway, as a secular humanist, believer in the value of good government, scientist, and yet deeply spiritual person believe...
very much the same things.
I still want to smack that obnoxious charlatan on the Bench in Alabama upside his ignorant, little head. However, I would never, as a pacifist (qualified), use my unregistered shotgun to escalate the violence beyond that point.
Posted by: froz gobo at December 29, 2004 11:47 PM