OT: Conservatives booted out of office

TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 2 - Less than a year after the Kansas Board of Education
adopted science standards challenging Darwin's theory of evolution with a
requirement to teach the creation myth, voters on Tuesday ousted the
conservative majority on the board that favored those guidelines.

Several of the winners in the primary election, whose victories are
virtually certain to shift the board to a science-based majority in
November, promised Wednesday to work swiftly to restore a science curriculum
that does not subject evolution to critical attack.

"Kansas science education will no longer be the laughing stock of the world
because of mis-guided faith-based conservatives"

Hanna Lahy wrote:[color=blue]
> TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 2 - Less than a year after the Kansas Board of Education
> adopted science standards challenging Darwin's theory of evolution with a
> requirement to teach the creation myth, voters on Tuesday ousted the
> conservative majority on the board that favored those guidelines.
>
> Several of the winners in the primary election, whose victories are
> virtually certain to shift the board to a science-based majority in
> November, promised Wednesday to work swiftly to restore a science curriculum
> that does not subject evolution to critical attack.
>
> "Kansas science education will no longer be the laughing stock of the world
> because of mis-guided faith-based conservatives"[/color]

I wonder if God told Pat Robertson than he's going to destroy Topeka
now?

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:42:10 GMT, "Hanna Lahy" <hannal@att.net> wrote:
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>TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 2 - Less than a year after the Kansas Board of Education
>adopted science standards challenging Darwin's theory of evolution with a
>requirement to teach the creation myth, voters on Tuesday ousted the
>conservative majority on the board that favored those guidelines.
>
>Several of the winners in the primary election, whose victories are
>virtually certain to shift the board to a science-based majority in
>November, promised Wednesday to work swiftly to restore a science curriculum
>that does not subject evolution to critical attack.
>
>"Kansas science education will no longer be the laughing stock of the world
>because of mis-guided faith-based conservatives"
>[/color]

Sometimes you kooks win...

.....but never in the long run...

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Scott in Florida

'The land of the free because of the brave'

even the article talks of "Darwin's theory of evolution" That would
mean it isn't proven science right?

I believe creativity is also taught as a theory.

"ron" <really [email]good@serviceu.com[/email]> wrote[color=blue]
> even the article talks of "Darwin's theory of evolution" That would mean
> it isn't proven science right?
> I believe creativity is also taught as a theory.[/color]

On occasion you may want to educate yourself about the huge difference in
what scientists call a theory and how differently the word is used in
common usage.
BTW, there is this scientific theory about fission and fusion of atoms and
how it sets free considerable nuclear energy. No reason for you to be
concerned about it though, because even after 75 years of research, it is
still a "theory"!
Dream on.....

In article <6HvAg.2252$gY6.2216@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
"ron" <really [email]good@serviceu.com[/email]> wrote:
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> even the article talks of "Darwin's theory of evolution" That would
> mean it isn't proven science right?
>
> I believe creativity is also taught as a theory.[/color]

So is gravity. To a scientist the word theory has a very specific
meaning. People derisively say "evolution is just a theory" when
promoting the teaching of ID or Creationism. The correct reply to such
ignorance is "ID isn't EVEN a theory. It's just an opinion"

On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:31:14 GMT, "ron" <really [email]good@serviceu.com[/email]>
wrote:
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>even the article talks of "Darwin's theory of evolution" That would
>mean it isn't proven science right?[/color]

The evidence supports it, so it is an accepted theory unless and until
someone comes up with a better explanation for what has been observed.
[color=blue]
>
>I believe creativity is also taught as a theory.
>[/color]

But there is no proof and no evidence for Creationism, so it isn't a
theory and it certainly isn't science.

It's a religious belief and should be kept in church, not in the
schools.

"Hanna Lahy" <hannal@att.net> wrote in message
news:agxAg.543710$Fs1.316326@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...[color=blue]
>
> "ron" <really [email]good@serviceu.com[/email]> wrote[color=green]
>> even the article talks of "Darwin's theory of evolution" That would mean
>> it isn't proven science right?
>> I believe creativity is also taught as a theory.[/color]
>
> On occasion you may want to educate yourself about the huge difference in
> what scientists call a theory and how differently the word is used in
> common usage.
> BTW, there is this scientific theory about fission and fusion of atoms and
> how it sets free considerable nuclear energy. No reason for you to be
> concerned about it though, because even after 75 years of research, it is
> still a "theory"!
> Dream on.....
>[/color]

BTW, you misspelled Honah-Lee

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Charlie