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Discovery Institute Chides Ohio Activists for Trying to Dumb Down Evolution Education and Censor Science
*Discovery Institute Chides Ohio Activists for Trying to Dumb Down Evolution Education and Censor Science*
“Ohio critics of intelligent design now want to dumb down the teaching of evolution by censoring out scientific evidence challenging Darwinism and that is bad for students and bad for science education,” said Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. “A lot of evidence surrounding evolution isn’t typically covered in biology courses. Students need to learn more about evolution, not less.”
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Darwinists Want To Ban Intelligent Design From Not Just Science Classrooms, But All Classrooms
*Darwinists Want To Ban Intelligent Design From Not Just Science Classrooms, But All Classrooms*
“Pull the intelligent design class at Frazier Mountain High School,” was the letter’s ominous message, “or we file an injunction.”
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Dover in Review: An Analysis of Judge Jones’ Flawed Ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
During the Christmas break, I posted a four-part series analyzing various issues surrounding the Dover intelligent design ruling. In case you missed it, I am reposting the first three parts of the series here in one place. The analysis addresses the following questions: I. Is Judge Jones an activist judge?
Intelligent Design is Empirically Testable and Makes Predictions
Among the many, many errors in Judge John Jones’ Dover vs. Kitzmiller opinion is the charge that intelligent design (ID) makes no empirically testable claims (see pp. 66 ff.). Similarly, other ID critics assert that intelligent design makes no testable predictions.1 In fact, intelligent design fulfills both criteria since it makes numerous empirically testable predictions.
In Reporting Hot Button Issues Like Evolution It’s Hard for the Media to Not “Tell You What It Means”
When we launched this website almost exactly one year ago, it was because we were tired of the mainstream media ignoring, mischaracterizing and otherwise misreporting the views of scientists and scholars who dissent from Darwinism, as well as those scientists who also advocate for the theory of intelligent design. The mainstream media has noticed. Read more at Evolution, News & Views, www.evolutionnews.org.