Supporters of "intelligent design" on state BOE issue minority report

[atommom]

The report includes a three-page cover letter to the board signed by committee member William Harris, a medical school professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and 23 pages of proposed revisions. Harris referred questions to John Calvert, a founder of Intelligent Design Network Inc., a nonprofit group that seeks objectivity in origins science. (atommom stifles a snide comment here)

Calvert issued a statement Friday that said the proposed revisions in the minority report “encourage the teaching of origins science consistent with the nature of scientific inquiry.”

The minority report supports the teaching of evolution and does not advocate the teaching of intelligent design. However, it suggests that teachers be allowed to address scientific alternatives.

Case said that those who signed the minority report “are trying to take little bitty steps to change the nature of science so that their philosophy can be introduced” and that that philosophy is intelligent design.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/10402384.htm

A copy of the minority report is online at http://www.kansasscience2005.com (Thus far, I haven't been able to bring up that page.) Review of the draft begins on Tuesday.

[rucky]

1. If God wanted us to learn about intelligent design in our schools...

wouldn't he just make it that way?

:shrug:

[atommom]

2. Exactly. Surely this isn't for mere mortals to decide. ;)

[StClone]

3. Intelligent Design brought to you by Unintelligent Monkey descendent's

Need it be said that if I.D. dogma is a teachable as Science, Superstitions are then irreproachable.

[vpigrad]

4. These idiots are getting bold (ntxt)

[atommom]

5. Update

Those who favor teaching creationism, which follows the biblical story of how the world was formed, hold five of the 10 seats on the state education board. But in January they will gain a seat to become a majority on the board.

http://ljworld.com/section/schools/story/190484