On 11 Jan 2006 at 9:25, Dennis Goff wrote: > Here is a link to a story in this morning's New York Times > http://tinyurl.com/9d77f . I thought that it would be of interest to > several of us because it reports on a group of parents who are suing a > California public school to remove a course called Philosophy of Design > (formally Philosophy of Intelligent Design). The course was proposed by > a special education teacher and that article suggests that it was > intended to promote young earth creationism by showing that Darwin's > philosophy is not "rock solid."
"The course was approved by the trustees in a 3-to-2 vote, despite testimony from science and math teachers that it would undermine the science curriculum". Good for them. See, Jim Clark, there are science and math teachers who won't put up with this nonsense in the classroom. I'm going to be interested to hear what Francis Crick has to say about ID, seeing as how his experience with the Beyond as well as the structure of DNA should uniquely qualify him as an expert on the subject. Stephen ___________________________________________________ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Department of Psychology Bishop's University Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm _______________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
