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hezekiah jones · 04-07-2002, 04:40 PM

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Needed action. At its April 7-9 meeting, the State Board of Education will discuss this matter further, and they may make some decision regarding the issue. Board members need to hear from many concerned citizens before April 7.

<a href="http://www.sciohio.org/contactboe.htm" target="_blank">LETTERS AND PHONE CALLS NEEDED ON SCIENCE STANDARDS BY APRIL 7</a>

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"In the next several years intelligent design will be sufficiently developed to deserve funding from the National Science Foundation. Whether it actually receives such funding will depend not on the merits of intelligent design but on the political forces controlling research moneys."

- William A. Dembski, Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology, p.121, quoted in The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2001 (emphasis mine).

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hezekiah jones · 04-07-2002, 04:56 PM

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Current draft indicator. Grade 10, Life Sciences #22, page 66. Know historical scientific developments occurred in evolutionary thought (e.g., Darwin, Mendel, Lamarck).

Modified indicator. Know historical scientific developments that occurred in evolutionary thought, are also accompanied by cognitively challenged sideshow personalities (e.g., Paley, Behe, drunken man on the street corner, etc.).

<a href="http://www.sciohio.com/start.htm" target="_blank">Substandard Education for All Ohioans</a>

pseudobug · 04-07-2002, 05:56 PM

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Originally posted by hezekiahjones:


<a href="http://www.sciohio.com/start.htm" target="_blank">Substandard Education for All Ohioans</a>

ROTFLMAO! Too funny, hezekiah.

The sad thing is that some of the creationists and ID nincompoops will actually take the site seriously.

Valentine Pontifex · 04-07-2002, 07:52 PM

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Originally posted by hezekiahjones:


<a href="http://www.sciohio.org/contactboe.htm" target="_blank">LETTERS AND PHONE CALLS NEEDED ON SCIENCE STANDARDS BY APRIL 7</a>

Notice that they are making the "Santorum language" lie yet again. For shame.

hezekiah jones · 04-08-2002, 12:59 PM

<a href="http://www.sciohio.org" target="_blank">sciohio.org</a> (not <a href="http://www.sciohio.com" target="_blank">sciohio.com</a>) has updated its page again.

This time they've given very specific instructions on how to respond to the State of Ohio's request for comments on the science standards.

In fact, the instructions are so specific (I believe "idiot proof" would be the appropriate term), they refer exclusively to which buttons to click, on which pretty colors, to make comments in accordance with sciohio.org's desires:

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"NOTE: BENCHMARKS have a YELLOW background, and INDICATORS have a WHITE background. Don't get them confused!"

(rofl)

So people needn't know anything about either biological evolution or "intelligent design" in order to make the "correct" comments. Obviously the braintrust behind sciohio.org is quite familiar with the intellectual capacity of its target audience.

<a href="http://www.sciohio.org/comments.htm" target="_blank">Here are the instructions</a>.

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