Re: Louisiana: Origins of life education law prompts debate
- From: Ron O <rokimoto@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:25:37 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 29, 5:20 pm, Jason Spaceman <notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From the article:
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Louisiana College's Wade Warren, assistant dean of the college and associate
professor of biology, supports the law.
He said he thinks people who are upset by the bill have not read it. Warren
said opponents argue that the new law pushes intelligent design and
creationism into the classroom, and it doesn't.
So why target evolution?
The professor at the private Baptist college in Pineville said he liked the
bill because it allows teachers to teach current science information in a
field that moves fast.
Controversy exists
Warren was among three LC professors who testified in Baton Rouge on the
bill.
While there, he said some in the science community testified after the LC
professors that there was no controversy about evolution.
But a senator pointed out that there was controversy just in the room among
the science educators.
Why is evolution singled out? What is the difference between
scientist and science educators (coming from a Baptist College) that
might be the cause of this difference in opinion? Is this bill
supposed to improve science teaching or religious appologetics and
religious controversies?
The state's Grade Level Expectations - or GLEs - for science shows that
students are to learn how to analyze, critique and be objective, Warren
said, but also that teachers are to give DNA and fossil evidence that
supports Darwinism.
"Not all evidence does that," Warren said.
Well now he is going to have to support that notion, and find
something that he can teach without relying on the bogus creationist
junk.
He said he sees where teachers would be fearful to bring up evidence that
does not support the Darwin model.
Warren said he does not understand why some in the science community are
upset with the bill.
"I don't know what they are afraid of," he said.
Because he knows that he himself is lying about what he expects the
bill to do, it is probably easier to tell the lie above.
He needs a lesson plan. He needs to demonstrate that he can teach
what he claims.
Warren said it gives students information and allows them to make their own
decisions.
Where is the creationist information going to come from? He has to
specify the supplimental materials and demonstrate the scientific
validitity.
The bill also opens the door for science teachers to be cutting-edge faculty
members, he said.
They could always do that if they wanted to take the time, and a whole
lot of them likely have been teaching the creationist junk illegally
for years.
Now, lets see what they get to teach and what materials that they are
going to use to teach it. This Warren fellow doesn't provide any
examples. I wonder why?
Ron Okimoto
The Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative Christian organization, and the
Discovery Institute, a self-described think tank based in Seattle that is
critical of evolution theory, supported the bill.
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Read it athttp://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080629/NEWS01...
J. Spaceman
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