Re: Intelligent Design in Minnesota (and ...?)

[George Sheridan <learn@jps.net>]

Big bang theory enables us to infer the age of the universe (over 13 
billion years) from the observed red shift in starlight. Creationist 
believers in an earth that's only a few thousand years old, therefore, want 
to cast doubt on the big bang as well as on plate tectonics (which offers 
an alternative to Noah's flood as an explanation for marine fossils on 
mountain tops).

Evidence from mitochondrial DNA is used to estimate the length of time 
since any two cell lineages (say, humans and chimpanzees) shared a common 
ancestor. Perhaps this is why cell theory is also under attack.

At 06:16 AM 3/22/2004 -0800, Scott Hays wrote:
> 5.13 Page 19, Grade 9-12, Strand III, Sub-Strand A, after
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> 5.14 Benchmarks 7, insert:
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> 5.15 "The student will be able to explain how scientific and
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> 5.16 technological innovations as well as new evidence can challenge
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> 5.17 portions of or entire accepted theories and models including,
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> 5.18 but not limited to, plate tectonic theory and big bang theory."

George Sheridan
Northside School
Cool, California 95614