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paleonet Yahoo! News Story - Nobel Laureates Frown on ID Curriculum Plans- Yahoo! News



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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>> Nobel Laureates Frown on Curriculum Plans - Yahoo! News
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050916/ap_on_sc/evolution_debate_2
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>> Yahoo! News
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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!