Scientists Try To Reverse Movement In Ohio Toward "Intelligent Design"

[JABBS]

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In an effort to fight advocates of the non-evolutionary theory "intelligent design," a group of scientists has recruited a candidate of its own for the Ohio Board of Education.

The scientists, under the moniker Help Ohio Public Education, are backing former Rep. Tom Sawyer, a Democrat, over Republican incumbent Deborah Owens Fink, who has pushed for students in science class to be taught information for and against evolution.

[loveable liberal]

1. Intelligent design??!! 'TOOPID GOOOOOOOODDDD....

unfriggen-believeable......

[truth2power]

2. How do you teach information AGAINST evolution?..

Do the teachers get a lesson plan or a script to work from? I would imagine that anyone who's certified to teach science could invalidate any of those arguments right away. So how could they, in good conscience, teach something based on fallacious reasoning?

[JABBS]

4. you say that there are multiple "theories"

including evolution and "intelligent design."

By putting them on equal footing, a teacher reduces the credibility of evolution as accepted fact by scientists.

[Coexist]

3. THANK YOU!

the scientific community has been far too quiet on this issue. Nice to see them jumping into the fray.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. a kick because this got buried before people could see it

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. K&R, still too few have read this... i guess I needed to vote it up!

:kick:

[bananas]

7. Tom Sawyer vs Fink?

Is this real or a parody?

[JABBS]

8. real

you can't pick the names, unfortunately.

[bananas]

9. The names are perfect! nt