The same Associated Press story appeared in the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle
this morning:
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/12667829.htm
Regards,
Mike Everhart
Adjunct Curator of Paleontology
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
www.oceansofkansas.com
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Jere H. Lipps wrote
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> The major problem with the Yahoo story is that it calls Intelligent
> Design a "theory" thus equating it with the Theory of Evolution. It
> is merely an idea, belief or guess, but it is not a /scientific theory
> /because it provides no evidence, proposes no mechanism backed by
> evidence and no tests of it. As such, the real tragedy is that it
> degrades the entire scientific process and its understanding, thus
> dumbing down America all the way from the President to little children
> in school. That dumbing down of science is a big worry for America
> as it competes in the world in science and technology. The competing
> countries teach the facts, the hypotheses, the tests of hypotheses,
> and the theories that result from that process, not the guesses and
> beliefs of a religious viewpoint. As in the case of Katrina and New
> Orleans, America needs Intelligent Planning and Intelligent Action,
> not Intelligent Design!