Re: paleonet RE: Court Ruling Against ID

[Dee Ann Cooper <deeanncooper@xxxxxxxxx>]

and everyone should check out online synopsis of the
seminal I.D. work - Of Pandas and People (the Amazon
books website lets you read the first few pages).  for
the New Year, let's talk about fossils ... instead of
these folks and their foibles.  

--- "James E. Day" <jeday@ilstu.edu> wrote:

> Everyone should check their nearest news outlet and
> check out the District
> Court Ruling against ID
> 
> I Have pasted a quote from the ruling judge and the
> storey from the MSNBC
> news website below:
> 
> "HARRISBURG, Pa. - "Intelligent design" is "a
> religious alternative
> masquerading as a scientific theory" and cannot be
> mentioned in biology
> classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a
> federal judge said
> Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom
> clashes on evolution since
> the 1925 Scopes trial.
> 
> Dover Area School Board members violated the
> Constitution when they ordered
> that its biology curriculum must include the notion
> that life on Earth was
> produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S.
> District Judge John E.
> Jones III said. 
> 
> "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the
> Board amount to a pretext
> for the Board's real purpose, which was to promote
> religion in the public
> school classroom," he wrote in his 139-page opinion.
> "
> 
> Happy Solstice and Holidays to other nonpagans
> 
> Jed Day
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk
> [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk] On Behalf
> Of tomdevrie@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:29 PM
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: paleonet Paleo Resources for Developing
> Countries
> 
> In the spirit of the holiday season, and in support
> of paleontologists 
> in developing countries, where financial resources
> are often far more 
> limited for paleo than in places like the UK, US,
> Canada, or EU,and 
> finally, to introduce a new topic, let me ask if
> subscribers to 
> paleonet could contribute to a list of government
> agencies, 
> foundations, and institutions that might provide
> financial support for 
> colleagues in developing countries to (1) pursue
> paleo research in home 
> countries, (2) visit museum collections in other
> countries, (3) 
> collaborate with colleagues in other countries, and
> (4) pursue graduate 
> degrees in other countries. For my own colleagues in
> Peru, finding 
> these avenues for funding has been difficult and,
> mostly, inefficient. 
> A single web-based list would be a great asset.
> 
> If such a master list already exists, I would like
> to pass along its 
> location to these South American collaborators.
> 
> Tom DeVries
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kishel <mike@houseofshred.net>
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Sent: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:13:44 -0800
> Subject: Re: paleonet RE: delisting
> 
>    "there is sometimes some palaeontlogy that goes
> around."
> 
> I saw some paleontology going around once.  It was a
> couple of people
> attacking each other over the orientation of fossils
> on a display.  
> Actually
> I think I saw that twice in just the last 3 months
> or so.
> 
> -Michael Kishel
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duncan McLean" <d.mclean@sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:34 AM
> Subject: Re: paleonet RE: delisting
> 
> 
> > Oh come on Jim, its not that bad. Well maybe there
> is too much 
> politics
> and
> > amatuer sociology but there is sometimes some
> palaeontlogy that goes
> around.
> > Not very often I have to admit. In fact hardly
> ever. How DO you 
> delist?
> >
> > Duncan
> >
> > Quoting "Riding, James B" <jbri@bgs.ac.uk>:
> >
> > > could anyone tell me how to delist from
> Paleonet.
> > > thanks
> > > Jim Riding
> > >
> > >
> > > 
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