I know this is mentioned in other topics but I would really like to establish a point where we can just get updates on where we are with the Evolution Debate in Public Schools.
I’ve read as much as I can from other topics here on this forum, from news sites, from various blogs and opinion columns but I still cannot figure out what, currently, is the state of play in the ongoing attempts by the Christian Right to ride roughshod over the American education system.
Are the attempts to install Intelligent Design BS into official public school curriculums still going on or are we done?
I heard that one all-Republican anti-evolution school board was fired and replaced with a board of all Democrats and pro-Darwinian ppl. I’m not sure where that was though – was that in Kansas?
I’m lost I have to confess.
I’m guessing that someone here is savvy enough to know the big picture of whats going on.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can clear this subject up for me.
Deoxy.
Oh, all right. The principal issue is all washed up anyway.
Throughput, my friend. I don’t know about the Oktoberfest weenies, but in Austria they don’t stop drinking to pee. It’s not for nothing that beer is called “Pische” here.
Spocko has obviously made a few evolutionary adaptations that we haven’t managed yet, or maybe he came down through a hitherto undetected line of descent from elephants, and retained the bladder capacity.
I guess I’m a little overdue for this, but speaking on my own behalf, welcome to SEB, Myxi.
Back to the original post made by Deoxy, currently my own University paper (the Gauntlet) is playing with the public in discussing ID. it’s funny, because so far, nobody who actually knows what they’re talking about has come to the defense of science (I hope that isn’t a bad editorial choice to decide which opinion to include for the evolution side, not that I don’t intend to write in and wtfpwn them all, anyway), while at least IDers are making some attempt to reference evidence and not just stammer on vaguely. I don’t think there’s any member of faculty who takes it as anything other than a political maneuver, though, being that I have not heard of any professors endorsing teaching the “controversy” in any of the departments – not even Communications and Culture. Of course, I haven’t sat down to a meeting with all of them either, although I suppose many wouldn’t bother coming regardless of the degree of advance notice they were given.
In any case, that’s the story from my end of the world.
The news from my end of the world: as far as I can tell, no one in Austria has even heard of Intelligent Design, except for one crazy expat American…
Yes, welcome “klt” (AKA Myxi)!
This place would be a bore if we all thought the same way.
Here’s a good site for you folks to take a gander at.
Gauntlet? You from calgary, canada perchance?
I just went back and revisited a comment made earlier:
“Maybe God just made the universe with the appearance of being billions of years old.
Damn straight. I’m in MS 211 right now, working on a Game Development Kit for a first-year course.
By the way, Myxi, check this out. It’s a pretty funny read.
I wonder what Myxi is going to make of some of Judge Jone’s comments on Behe’s so-called ID Theory:
Damn, even a conservative Bush appointed judge has a better grasp of the issue than Myxi does. Sad, but true.
Indeed, Les. It’s already been suggested that ID should rename itself “BI”, after Judge Jones’ characterization of the Dover School Board’s decision to tout ID as “breathtaking inanity”.