On August
11, 1999, the School Board overseeing education in the state of Kansas,
adopted new eighth-grade standards for teaching "evolution." These
non-binding recommendations to the schools curriculum omit references to
"macroevolution," that is, teaching that different species have common
ancestors. More importantly, the new standards introduce monotheistic
religion into science. Added is a definition of "creation" as "the
idea that the design and complexity of the design of the cosmos requires
an intelligent designer."
| See Kansas'
adopted science standards click here. |
These should
be compared to the standards that were introduced to the Board in a July,
1999 version of standards. These alternative standards follow from
the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences
-- groups that set the science standards for our public universities and
governmental agencies -- and propose teaching the complete picture of evolutionary
science. However, these were NOT adopted.
| View Kansas'
alternative science standards here. |
The adopted
standards were provided from the Creation Science Association For Mid-America
(CSA) which is centered in Kansas. Their main objective:
| "To educate people regarding the vast amount of scientific
evidence that supports Biblical Creation as the true account of origins,
and that the General Theory of Evolution is not only a false notion of
history, it is an extremely dangerous one, the fruits of which have destroyed
entire nations..." |
Visit their
website by clicking here
CSA is a
creationist group, led by Tom Willis. He helped rewrite the Kansas
Science Standards. He believes that "evolution" is a doctrinal belief
promoted by the religion of "humanism" -- the godless kind -- which glorifies
human achievement and accomplishments without glorifying God(s).
A peek
into the scientific mind of Tom Willis
by John
Catalano
"I believe that history is only
available to us in detail if you have a reliable witness," Willis said.
"If you believe a reliable witness, then there's no evolution. The testimony
in the Bible goes against it.'
By that logic, it would be OK to
burn a witch based on testimony from a "reliable witness", but not to convict
a criminal based on scientific forensic evidence of "historical" events.
And for a sample of CSA dogma,
here is CSA Objective number 3:
"3. To show that Biblical Creation,
because it is true, is the only "scientific" explanation of origins, and
therefore is the only account of origins that can possibly be useful to
science." |
Scientific Fact
by Mark Wardin
"Imagine you find a gun with my
fingerprints all over it. You then find a bullet with groves that
exactly match the barrel of that gun. It is then a
fact that I once held that gun. It is also a fact that the bullet you found
came from that gun. Nobody was there to witness me holding the gun, or
it firing that bullet, but those statements are facts none the less. A
fact is something so well supported, that all reasonable people can accept
it as true, unless proven otherwise. Did I fire that particular bullet?
Well, that is perhaps your best theory right now.
Now imagine a world filled with
thousands of fingerprints on thousands of guns, and thousands of matching
bullets fired from those guns. That is the
world of evolution. Evolution is a fact. There are many overlapping theories
such as natural selection and genetic drift that attempt to explain the
fact of evolution.
The creationist claim that an unseen
past event can never be a fact is simply false. That is why forensic science
and evolutionary biology are both sciences that deal with facts." |
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below for more information on Evolution
(from the
unofficial World of Richard Dawkins newsletter)
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