ID is a religion, Education Minister rules

[Martin]

How they handle it in Australia:

 

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/kosky-rules-intelligent-design-a-faith/2005/10/28/1130400365346.html

 

October 29, 2005

 

Kosky rules intelligent design a faith

 

Victoria's government schools will treat intelligent design as a religious faith, not science, Education Minister Lynne Kosky has ruled.

 

In her first statement on the subject, Ms Kosky reaffirmed the principle that government schools were secular and did not promote any religion.

 

She said the two areas in which religion could be discussed were optional religious education lessons and VCE studies comparing religions.

 

"In line with the above principles, schools can decide whether to offer intelligent design as part of religious instruction," Ms Kosky said. "Parents will be given the opportunity to withdraw their child from the lesson." ...

 

...Last week a coalition representing 70,000 Australian scientists and teachers likened it to the flat-earth theory.

[whap2005]

If we can detect an astoroid collision early enough, even with our current technology we can pretty much divert any collision our solar system throws at us. What worries me is the one that sneaks up on us.. which could very easily happen. For that scenerio, I would place an impactor in orbit so we could more quickly react to the suprise attack. I think it is a much more worthy cause for our hard earned tax payer dollars the say the ISS....

[ecoli]

wrong thread, whap... and this is a repeat thread anyway.

[Royston]

Or maybe the asteroid is symbolic of Intelligent Design, take care of it before it becomes a threat and collides with secular education.

[Martin]

Or maybe the asteroid is symbolic of Intelligent Design, take care of it before it becomes a threat and collides with secular education.

 

it has collided

asteroid collision is a good metaphor for what has happened to public intelligence in the US---it has been hit by a huge rock of stupidity

 

I expect it will take political scientists (or educators, social scientists, historians..) some time to figure out what we could have done to deflect the disaster.

 

too bad there is no telescope to see historical impacts coming---as there is with astronomical ones

[Martin]

Bettina just posted this one

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9973228/

 

her post is here:

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?p=224176#post224176

 

Bascule just posted this one

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17162341-13762,00.html

 

his post is here:

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?p=223680#post223680

 

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hopefully there will be a run of related news on these issues---concerning the literal interpretation of Genesis (or alternatively the rejection of Genesis as authoritative)

 

we can group the news links here, if we want, instead of having to start a separate thread for each item.

 

Bettina's link was about voters in Pennsylvania ousting a Creationist school board

 

Bascule's link was about Cardinal Poupard (who chairs a Vatican council on cultural matters) declaring Genesis allegorical----the Judeo-Christian creation myth not to be interpreted literally---and warning of the danger to the Church respresented by fundamentalism