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Quammen writes:
"Evolution is both a beautiful concept and an important one, more crucial nowadays to human welfare, medical science, and to our understanding of the world than ever before. It's also deeply persuasive -- a theory you can take to the bank. The essential points are slightly more complicated than most people assume, but not so complicated that they can't be comprehended by any attentive person. Furthermore, the supporting evidence is abundant, various, ever increasing, solidly interconnected, and easily available in museums, popular books, textbooks, and a mountainous accumulation of peer-reviewed scientific studies. No one needs to, and no one should, accept evolution merely as a matter of faith."
Evolution crucial to human welfare? Tell that to the six million Jews and others deemed inferior and primitive races by the evolution driven philosophy of Nazism.
Evolution crucial to medical science? Tell that to the forty million plus babies slaughtered in their mother's wombs labeled as mere tissue or Haeckel's fish in the womb.
Evolution crucial to our understanding of the world today? Creation design and a sense of value for human life is more crucial than ever today for understanding today's challenges.
Evolution is deeply persuasive? If this were so, then why the movement among scientists to accept intelligent design theory?
Evolution has abundant evidence? Other than limited variation occurring within population types, evidence for evolution is virtually non-existent.
Evolution propaganda is certainly readily available "...in museums, popular books, textbooks, and a mountainous accumulation of peer-reviewed scientific studies."
It is true that, "... no one should, accept evolution merely as a matter of faith." Sadly, most do. Few examine its claims, question its evidence, or critically analyze its logic. Indeed, most who accept evolution accept it by faith.
Intelligent Curriculum includes Intelligent Design
After a heated discussion October 18, 2004, the Dover Area School Board voted 6-3 to revise the science curriculum to require that students, "be made aware of gaps/problems in Darwin's Theory and of other theories of evolution including, but not limited to, intelligent design." Story in York Daily Record, October 21, 2004...
Evolutionists Seek Censorship of Creation Book in National Park
October 13, 2004,
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
(a national non-profit alliance of local,
state and federal scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers
and other professionals dedicated to upholding environmental laws and
values) issued a press release accusing the National Park Service
(NPS) of failing to carry out its promised high-level review of the
policies governing the selection of books for sale in the bookstores.
The press release also stated that the NPS failed to respond to
complaints from the heads of seven geoscience societies about the book
and to a scathing memorandum from the chief of its own Geologic
Resources Division. PEER's executive director Jeff Ruch commented,
"Promoting creationism in our national parks is just as wrong as
promoting it in our public schools."
Story in the
Washington Post, Octboer 15, 2004
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Teach the Controversy!
October 2004 issue of Wired magazine: the cover story declares, "The Crusade Against Evolution" by Evan Ratliff's. Ratliff writes, "Since the debate, 'teach the controversy' has become the rallying cry of the national intelligent-design movement, and Ohio has become the leading battleground. Several months after the debate, the Ohio school board voted to change state science standards, mandating that biology teachers "critically analyze" evolutionary theory. This fall, teachers will adjust their lesson plans and begin doing just that. In some cases, that means introducing the basic tenets of intelligent design." Story in Wired, September 29, 2004 ...
