Re: Arkansas: Panel to consider evolution critique

On Apr 21, 1:25 am, Jason Spaceman <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From the article:
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BY JOHN KRUPA

Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007

ROGERS - The School Board president wants a district committee to
review a set of supplemental materials that attack evolutionary
theory.

President Joye Kelley said after Tuesday's board meeting that the
committee then would recommend whether to incorporate the materials
into the district's secondary science curriculum.

The statement came after the School Board approved 21 science
textbooks that a member of the textbook selection committee painted as
slanted toward evolutionary theory.

Don Eckard, a Rogers dentist who served as the lone community
representative on the selection committee, said last month and again
Tuesday night that the science books do not present a balanced view of
evolution.

Eckard said students should be exposed to the scientific evidence that
both supports and refutes evolution. Eckard, a Christian, said he
isn't for teaching creationism or intelligent design in schools. He
presented the supplemental materials Tuesday and asked the board to
vote on them in May.

The supplemental materials consist of a 36-page handout and a
corresponding DVD.

The DVD and most of the printed materials are produced by the
Seattle-based Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture. Mark
Moore, a former Pea Ridge science teacher who spoke against the
science textbooks with Eckard last month, wrote the additional
material.

The institute's materials are titled "Icons of Evolution: The Growing
Scientific Controversy Over Darwin," and present infor- mation that
challenges evolutionary theory.
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Read it athttp://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/187743/

J. Spaceman

I really think that we should lay back and let them do it. There is
no way to get a second "Dover" without a second trial.

However, considering the radical right controls the Federal Courts, we
might need to wait for another presidential election and a few more
retired SCUS judges.


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