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Hi, Len!
Just a quick note to say that was a great e-mail- worth scanning down
to the last entry. Scary...
Hope you're doing well- and your family, too! HSC continues to
survive and has outgrown our facility, so we're hoping to build a new
one in a few years- or more.
Thanks for the e-mail!
Warm regards,
Laddie
On Jul 21, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Len Adams wrote:
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> Dear ASTCers,
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> I came across this article in one of my other listservs and I
> thought some of you might be interested in it. I'm not so familiar
> with the New Scientist, but the article was informative.
>
> - Len
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> http://tinyurl.com/6cyyg6
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> New Scientist [www.newscientist.com]
>
> New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US
> 09 July 2008
> Amanda Gefter
>
> BARBARA FORREST knew the odds were stacked against her. "They had
> 50 or 60 people in the room," she says. Her opponents included
> lobbyists, church leaders and a crowd of home-schooled children.
> "They were wearing stickers, clapping, cheering and standing in the
> aisles." Those on Forrest's side numbered less than a dozen,
> including two professors from Louisiana State University,
> representatives from the Louisiana Association of Educators and
> campaigners for the continued separation of church and state.
>
> That was on 21 May, when Forrest testified in the Louisiana state
> legislature on the dangers hidden in the state's proposed Science
> Education Act. She had spent weeks trying to muster opposition to
> the bill on the grounds that it would allow teachers and school
> boards across the state to present non-scientific alternatives to
> evolution, including ideas related to intelligent design (ID) - the
> proposition that life is too complicated to have arisen without the
> help of a supernatural agent.
>
> The act is designed to slip ID in "through the back door", says
> Forrest, who is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana
> University and an expert in the history of creationism. She adds
> that the bill's language, which names evolution along with global
> warming, the origins of life and human cloning as worthy of "open
> and objective discussion", is an attempt to misrepresent evolution
> as scientifically controversial. <snip>
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