Plain Dealer spotlights school board race

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On his radio talk show last month, Pastor Ernie Sanders didn't mince words about the importance of this fall's race between State Board of Education member Deborah Owens Fink and her challenger, Tom Sawyer.

"If you believe in God, creation and true science, vote for Deb bie," he intoned on "What's Right, What's Left," a talk show broadcast from Geauga County that airs on WHKW AM/1220. "If you believe in evolu tion, abortion and sin, you've got Tom Sawyer, right?"

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The adoption of Ohio's science standards changed that. The board adopted standards that included a strong evolution plank. But it also included a model lesson for teachers' use that called for a "critical analysis" of Darwin's widely accepted theory that life on Earth descended from common ancestors.

Scientists cried foul, arguing that the lesson created a controversy where there was none by singling out evolution for criticism. Critical analysis, they said, was little more than warmed-over intelligent design, the concept that life is so complex that a supernatural being must have had a hand in its development.

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1. I thought the creationists* advocated climate science misinformation, too

I recall that from a public radio story. Cannot seem to find more on it, though...

*"Creationists" = GOP Energy Lobby stooges

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2. If you go to

the website for the "Discovery Institute" and search their articles you will find many articles relating to climate change, all of them negative. The "Discovery Institute" is one of the driving forces behind teaching ID in the schools.

Here are a few quotes from one article I found there written by David Klinghoffer LINK

So what exactly are we fighting about when we fight about climate change? Maybe a resolution of the mystery can be found in the Bible's famous story of environmental catastrophe: that of the flood and its sequel, the tower of Babel.

God sent the deluge to erase life and get a fresh start with Noah and his family. Later, a group of the children of these flood survivors settled in the land of Shinar, saying to one another, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed across the whole earth" (Genesis 11:4).

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Perhaps there is an implicit recognition on the part of today's enviro-skeptics that the present fight isn't merely about the environment. That's what the novelist Michael Crichton argued in a 2003 speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco: "Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western world is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice of urban atheists. Why do I say that? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st-century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths."

It's clear that climate-change activists have a moral message. But it's a completely different one from any you'll find in the Bible. Basically, it has to do with shedding the encumbering complexities associated with modern industry and technology.

As I've written here before, between America's two major political philosophies the major dividing issue isn't really political at all. It is religious. It's about God