Intelligent Design Opened Up

November 10, 2005

Category: News

This came across my desk today. So, if they have decided to do this, does this mean more organizations will start to follow suit?

The Kansas State Board of Education voted 6-4 to allow science students in public schools to hear materials critical of evolution in biology classes. The new curriculum mentions that theories of life arising from similar building-block molecules through purely random processes can be challenged by recent findings in the fossil record and by molecular biology.
Not all were happy, however. ‘This is a sad day. We’re becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I hate that,’ said board member Janet Waugh. The new standards will be used in statewide standardized testing; the students are still expected to know ‘basic evolutionary principles.’ As part of the decision, the Board of Education also went so far as to redefine science itself, saying that it is ‘no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

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Posted by pablohart on November 10, 2005 11:42 AM

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I am not sure more will follow. Considering that the all of the Dover School Board that voted for Intelligent Design just got replaced in the election and their trial has gone miserably by all accounts.

My guess on this is that Dover will lose the trial and that Kansas will oust at least a couple (enough to shift the balance of power)of board members with the coming election. Kansas booted a few members back in 1999 over Intelligent Design stuff. Then after the heat went away they sneaked a few more on the board. I doubt they will last.

Of course the whole world is laughing at Kansas now.

Posted by Tim Van Haitsma at November 10, 2005 4:45 PM

when will we learn that hearts are changed not through believing in a certain reading of Genesis 1, but through the power of the cross?

Posted by Nathan Hart at November 11, 2005 12:20 PM

My favorite St. Augustine quote provides illumination on the Crevo/Evo issue.

"It very often happens that there is some question as to the earth or the sky, or the other elements of this world -- respecting which one who is not a Christian has knowledge derived from most certain reasoning or observation, and it is very disgraceful and mischievous and of all things to be carefully avoided, that a Christian speaking of such matters as being according to the Christian Scriptures, should be heard by an unbeliever talking such nonsense that the unbeliever perceiving him to be as wide of the mark as east from west, can hardly restrain himself from laughing"

Posted by Tim Van Haitsma at November 12, 2005 10:16 AM

Follow up. My prediction about the trial results is correct. Of course the Judges ruling was even stronger than I had hoped for. It was a slam dunk for Science. Now to see what happens in Kansas. And rumor has it that the Thomas Moore Law Center is considering filing in Michigan about ID and the Gull Lake School system.

Posted by Tim Van Haitsma at January 6, 2006 8:36 AM

Interesting. Do you have an article online that you can point us to, Tim?

Posted by pablohart at January 6, 2006 8:53 AM

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