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February 21, 2006 - News
Hundreds of Doctoral
Scientists Question Evolution Dogma:
The number of scientists who publicly question Darwinism and
encourage critical thinking on the issue has now topped 500. Given that
these fully credentialed PhD scientists risk retributions at work for
going public against the established dogma, this is particularly
newsworthy. The list includes PhDs from MIT, Cambridge, The Smithsonian,
UC Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, Ohio State, and members of both the
United States and Russian National Academy of Sciences. Download or view
the list yourself at: Darwin's "warm little pond"
found to be yet another dry hole: American
origin of life research chemists, reporting results of studies at hot
volcanic vents to the Royal Society in London, have concluded that such
environments are unlikely to produce life. They report that such chemical
scenarios of hot acidic waters containing clays producing interesting
origin of life related chemical reactions will not work because, "...in
our experiments, the organic compounds became so strongly held to the clay
particles that they could not undergo any further chemical reactions."
Read one account at: Central Texas - SBOE 5 and SBOE 10 Primary Races: GOP and Democratic Party primaries are just around the corner. Note that in District 5, an SBOE member who voted against "strengths and weaknesses" and SBOE conservatives in the high school biology book adoption is being challenged by conservative Christian Ken Mercer, who is endorsed by most conservative leaders over the incumbent. In District 10, an SBOE member who also voted against conservatives is retiring, leaving a contested open seat. At press time conservative Christian Cynthia Dunbar had garnered the vast majority of conservative endorsements. In SBOE District 3, a Democrat is retiring and the seat will be contested in the general election. Stay tuned for more information soon. If you have friends or family in either of these districts, which span from Houston to Austin to West of San Antonio, please let them know about Ken Mercer and Cynthia Dunbar. Texas Governor Perry Encourages Efforts to Teach Both Sides: The Austin American Statesman recently reported that Governor Rick Perry continues to support the right of Texas teachers to teach both sides of the origins' controversy, rightly upholding clear Texas law that specifies both "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution theories be taught. Read the story at: http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/6perry.html Columbia, South Carolina:
The SC Education Oversight Committee (EOC)
recommended that students should be taught to "critically analyze"
evolution. The EOC voted 10-2 to include this, over the objection of the
Darwinists. Madison,
Wisconsin: Assisted by professors at one of the most liberal
campuses in the nation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lawmakers in
that very blue state have introduced legislation to ban intelligent design
from science classrooms entirely! Clearly, the militant Darwinists are
seeing their worldview collapse, and are resorting to desperate means.
Dr. William Dembski, one of the leaders of the intelligent design
movement, said of the censorship attempt that, "I take this as a clear
sign that we are winning." Dembski added, "Wisconsin may well be
evolution's Waterloo." Conservative groups across the nation, including
Focus on the Family and the Southern Baptist Convention's Baptist Press,
have soundly criticized the attempts to muzzle Darwin's critics. Dover, Pennsylvania: Much has already been written on Judge Jones' decision to permanently ban the Dover school district from questioning the theory of evolution. Serious thinkers on the issue, both on the science and the legal side, view his 139-page diatribe against labeling evolution a theory as seriously flawed. Except for the Dover Area School District Board of Education, suffice to say that Judge Jones' ruling does not apply anywhere else on the entire planet and can be ignored. Even in Dover, students and teachers can voluntarily bring the subject up. Note that the judge did not rule on what that school board actually did, but rather he ruled on what that school board wanted to do -- bring Christianity and creationism into the classroom. They did not do that, but the judge ruled that since their motives were to do so, then what they legally did was somehow--illegal. For those of you who read George Orwell's 1984, this is [Darwinian] "thought police" in action. Earlier, in Cobb County, Georgia, another Federal judge ruled on a 'sticker' case -- where a sticker placed in a textbook said evolution was a theory. He could not find such motives as the Dover judge did, so he went even further. He ruled that the sticker was not allowable because of what other people might think the motives of that school board were! That is "thought police" on steroids! High School Biology and Science Teachers: More teachers continue to receive DVD's featuring stunning educational graphics regarding protein synthesis and questioning naturalistic Darwinism in a very powerful presentation. A biology teacher's comments are excerpted below:
As always, thanks for your time and continued efforts. Very truly yours, Mark Ramsey
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"Thank
you so much...I was able to show it to my biology students. We are
currently discussing the Origins debate, and it was a perfect addition
to the curriculum. I was particularly impressed with the computer
animation for the DNA-RNA-protein synthesis mechanism, a concept that is
generally pretty difficult for students to grasp. “Where Does the
Evidence Lead” is a great presentation of the Intelligent Design
perspective, and it was encouraging to hear of evolutionary biologists
who have rejected Darwinism and embraced ID. The combination of
interviews, video footage, computer animation, and graphics is
excellent, appealing and interesting for high schoolers and adults
alike."