RE: paleonet good 'creation watch' web site

["Dr. Lisa E. Park" <lepark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the most obvious case going on right now is in Dover, Pennsylvania.
There are others.  An excellent summary of the most recent court cases can
be found at: http://www.ncseweb.org/

Not all of these cases are the ACLU suing.  Sometimes, it is the other way
around.  But there are or have been recent cases in Georgia.  I know that
Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education is herself,
being sued.  More ominous are all of the bills in state legislatures that
propose either "equal time" or an academic bill of rights.  States with
these bills pending include: Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Texas,
Alabama, and Ohio.

Personally, I think one of the reasons why the Christian Right is so
interested in the Senate fillibuster issue and getting conservative judges
to sit on the Federal bench is because they mean to bring all sorts of cases
up for litigation in the future, including evolution.

The scariest thing in the news lately is from Kansas.....where they want to
redefine what "Science" is.  That is, in fact, the Christian right's main
goal.....to end intellectualism in the US.  The question is: did the
conservative Christians co-opt the GOP? or did the GOP co-opt the
conservative Christians?  At this point, it isn't about Science, but about
politics and religion.  Science, unfortunately, has really nothing to do
with any of this, which is why we (scientists) seem so befuddled as to what
to do about it.  What is the old addage? There are two topics one should
never discuss with friends/family: politics and religion.  Sadly, neither
lend themselves to very rational or civil debates.

Lisa

-----Original Message-----
From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk]On
Behalf Of Judith Harris
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:55 PM
To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: paleonet good 'creation watch' web site


Thanks for that info Lisa.

Does anyone out there know why these Christian fundamentalist groups
are not being sued for putting religion in the schools? This is
Christianity and we supposedly have separation of church and state. I
am a member of the ACLU and am going to ask them about this but I
wondered if anyone out there had heard of this approach to the problem.

Judith Harris

On May 23, 2005, at 10:41 AM, Dr. Lisa E. Park wrote:

> Dear Paleonetters--
>
> In an effort to help counter the misinformation spread on the
> Internet by
> creationist groups, the Committe for the Scientific Investigation
> of Claims
> of the Paranormal (CSICOP) has recently unveiled a 'Creation Watch'
> Web
> site.  The site will help promote good science education and an
> understanding of the evolutionary sciences, and address the
> fallacies of
> creation and Intelligent Design arguments while exposing the
> tactics used to
> mislead the public.
>
> The Creation Watch Web site is at www.csicop.org/creationwatch/.
> It is
> pretty good.  It is my understanding that they have plans to
> develop it
> further for helping educators. Check it out.
>
> Best,
> Lisa Park
>
>
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> From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk]On
> Behalf Of Mike Everhart
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:32 AM
> To: PaleoNet@nhm.ac.uk; vrtpaleo@usc.edu
> Subject: paleonet Creationism museum
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> All,
> This note was on CNN this morning….
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> Creation Museum Sparks Evolution Debate
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> At least he's not in Kansas!
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> Regards,
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> Mike Everhart
> Adjunct Curator of Paleontology
> Sternberg Museum of Natural History
> Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
> www.oceansofkansas.com
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