The Ohio state school board has just voted (11-4) to eliminate a lesson plan and
science standards that opened the door to teaching ID. See here and here. Panda's Thumb alread has a thread open.
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Oh yeah, baby--Richard has the dish over on Panda's Thumb:
Ohio is no longer on the Disco Institute's list of favorite states for pilgrimages. Late this afternoon, by an 11-4 vote, the Ohio State Board of Education stripped out the intelligent-design creationist "critical analysis of evolution"…
John Lynch has an excellent summary of what a rotten year it's been for ID:
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Dembski:
Just as a tree that has been “rimmed” (i.e., had its bark completely cut through on all sides) is effectively dead even if it retains its leaves and appears alive, so Darwinism has met its match with the…
Yesterday was a very good day for science education in the midwest. I wrote last week about ongoing controversies in Michigan and Ohio as advocates of intelligent design (ID) were trying to find a way, any way, to weaken science education and open the door at least a crack for the introduction of…
As I've mentioned previously, I'm an Ohioan, born and bred. I was living in the state when all the Discovery Institute shenanigans were ongoing, resulting in the addition of a "critical analysis of evolution" lesson plan (which was removed this past February). Of course, that hasn't stopped the…
And the name calling has started: "Darwinist Bullies"