Re: Hypocrisy and the Dark Ages

[Scott Hays <shays@telis.org>]

Victor Steinbok writes:
>"The Minnesota Department of Education's new social studies and science
>standards were approved by the Minnesota House on Thursday, but only after
>lawmakers amended the document to reflect the views of critics of evolution."

Being a long-time member of NCSE (National Center for Sceince Education), I
have closely following developments in Minnesota (and, equally as bad, in
Ohio) where once successful efforts to put off the adherents of Intelligent
Design have gone belly up.  This is not good, because even if the science
community might be divided upon strategies for how to best teach science
(the Mathematically Correct collaborationists in California come to mind),
it has always remained fairly united in what the science is that needs to
be taught.  In short, adherents of DI have not always been fellow-travelers
with the devotees of ID.  Now, it seems that ID has found an even more
effective set of well-connected policy-makers, and can begin to go around
resetting its traps in other places ready to fall (Kansas comes to mind,
followed by almost all southern states).  We cannot allow this to happen.

I am very curious about the "evidence" being cited to cast doubt on the
accuracy of cell theory and the germ theory of disease.  This is new.  Can
anyone shed light, or point me in a direction where I can find it myself?

Scott Hays