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[thrustpig]

ok, Ohio's school board has just placed new standards of critical analysis on their biology curiculums(sp?). It involves heavy questioning of the "theory" of evolution, and more emphasis on intelligent design. According to the psycho-religeous morons who have been pushing this shit, evolution still has too many holes in it's reasoning, so

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[pythonmont]

Before you start raging against too many machines, it's already been voted down. Even if it might be construed as a victory to keep from being bothered by the recent Dover, PA, decision (ie, "we're not going to teach ID not because there's sound scientific evidence refuting it, but because we don't want to be arsed fighting it in court"), common sense still reigns.

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060215/NEWS04/602150455/-1/NEWS

edit: Also, evolution *is* a theory. It can not be proven. That's actually where the debate comes from, is that pro-evolutionists say "ID didn't happen," but the pro-ID'ers counter with "but you can't prove evolution happened either." It is this resulting clusterfuck that confuses most people, and they go with the "easier" answer, that being intelligent design.

[thrustpig]

ah ok, good. the news I heard was it was being placed into effect. I guess that was presumtuous(sp) reporting. I'm all for the teaching of BOTH strands of belief. My biology teacher in HS would simply use the term GodNatureEvolution whenever he refered to the powers that brought us all about, and that was fine for everyone. It's a term I use to this day to keep from pissing off "believers" of anything.