MrSpooky Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Monday:Darwinists Want To Ban Intelligent Design From Not Just Science Classrooms, But All Classrooms http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/01/darwi...an_intelli.html Tuesday: Dogmatic Darwinists Strike Again: Americans United for the Separation of Students and Science http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/01/dogma...strike_aga.html Wednesday: Intelligent Design Group Urges California High School to Change Course or Remove Intelligent Design http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/01/intel...group_urges.h... http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060111/sfw114....=============... Press Release Source: Discovery Institute Intelligent Design Group Urges California High School to Change Course or Remove Intelligent Design Wednesday January 11, 7:17 pm ET SEATTLE, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading intelligent design group today sent a letter to the El Tejon School District in California requesting that the district either change the course materials or change the name of the its "Philosophy of design" elective philosophy class. Earlier this week the district's Frazier Mountain High School was sued by Americans United for Separation of Church and State for offering a philosophy course that purportedly teaches about the theory of intelligent design. In the letter, a Discovery Institute attorney writes: "The title and nature of this course are problematic and appear to misrepresent the content of the course and intelligent design." The letter later urges the district to: "Either reformulate the course by removing the young earth creationist materials or retitle the course as a course not focused on intelligent design." The complete text is available online at www.discovery.org/csc/. "In reviewing the course description and syllabus, it's clear that the course wrongly mixes intelligent design with young earth creationism or Biblical creationism," said attorney Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs at Discovery Institute's Center for Science & Culture and author of the letter. "As far as we can tell, more than half of the course content deals with young earth creationist materials, so the title 'Philosophy of design' is misleading." In the letter, Luskin explains why intelligent design is not the same as creationism: "Intelligent design is different from creationism because intelligent design is based upon empirical data, rather than religious scripture, and also because intelligent design is not a theory about the age of the earth. Moreover, unlike creationism, intelligent design does not try to inject itself into religious discussions about the identity of the intelligence responsible for life. Creationism, in contrast, always postulates a supernatural or divine creator." Posted by A.Carlson:Here is what appears to be a major flaw in the Discovery Institute's overall game plan. Now that they have released the beast, they have no control over it. Even as the former Dover school board showed, the public at large is taking from ID what it chooses. In doing so, the DI's major asset, namely the support from a great many fundamentalists, is now showing itself to be a major impediment. If the DI cannot divorce itself from fundamentalist versions riddled with young earth creationism they have effectively lost the legal battle and they know it. But by attacking young earth creationism in a bid for legitimacy that is hardly forthcoming, they risk losing some of their own major supporters. This has already been seen even prior to the Dover case. It can only get worse for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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