Original Article A heated issue most Ohioans thought was settled more than a year ago – how the origins and development of life will be taught in science classes – is again causing controversy. At the center, again, is the concept of “intelligent design,” which proposes that some higher intelligence played a role. Evolutionary scientists scoff at the notion, calling Read More ›
The State Board of Education is still on course to do what it promised 14 months ago: approve a lesson plan for the teaching of biology that requires students to examine what the theory of evolution can explain and what it cannot. The loudest critics of the standards, scientists among them, portray this as a disaster. Critics of the theory Read More ›
Board adopts textbooks after education agency head pledges to address remaining factual errors SEATTLE – The Texas State Board of Education voted today to adopt proposed biology textbooks for use in state schools after being promised by the Commissioner of the Texas Education Agency that all remaining factual errors in the textbooks will have to be addressed by publishers before the Read More ›
What would you do if a neighbor’s tree falls on your house and causes a thousand dollars of damage? You would ask your neighbor to pay for the damage, and the law would require that he or his insurance pay the cost of the damage. Likewise, if your neighbor keeps hazardous materials on the edge of his property, such as Read More ›
SEATTLE – “Today’s open letter from 550 Texas scientists and teachers that supposedly supports the teaching of evolution is so vague it is meaningless,” said Bruce Chapman, president of Discovery Institute, a public policy, think-tank. “It merely distracts from the issue of errors in textbooks.” “This is nothing more than a generic endorsement of good science standards, which we support too, Read More ›
THE “LIVING WAGE” movement has become the latest effort to impose socialism on the United States, one city at a time. After a slow beginning in the 1990s, living wage ordinances — which impose minimum wages much higher than the federal one — have now been adopted in over 100 municipalities, from Somerville, Mass., to Portland, Oregon, from Minneapolis to Read More ›
1. Is the fact that we can see “perfect” solar eclipses related to our existence? 2. Is our existence related to the transparency of the atmosphere? 3. Can life be based on any liquid substance, or is water somehow special? 4. Is Earth a data recorder? 5. Is the appearance of the night sky related to our existence? 6. Why Read More ›
One evening, during the second term of President Ronald Reagan, Terri Schiavo and her husband Michael decided to watch a television movie about Karen Ann Quinlan. Quinlan, as most readers know, had a tragic life. After overdosing on a combination of drugs and alcohol, she fell into unconsciousness and never awakened. Her parents won a lawsuit in the New Jersey Read More ›
WHEN TERRI SCHIAVO collapsed in 1990, causes unknown, she could have had no idea that 13 years later people the world over would know her name and care very much about whether she lived or died. Yet what began as a private tragedy—a vivacious young woman stricken in the very prime of her life with a brain injury that left Read More ›
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