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8DaysDazed
Posts:86
 | | 02/02/2008 9:27 AM |
 Alert | Nobel winners blast plan for 'Creation science'
A TEXAS Christian group's proposal to offer a degree in science education has drawn criticism from leading physicians and scientists, including a Nobel laureate who warned that Texas risks becoming "the laughing-stock of the nation".
Critics of the proposal by the Dallas-based Institute for Creation Research have peppered the state's commissioner of higher education with emails in recent weeks.
The institute's curriculum for the proposed science degree is heavily flavoured with Christian references and creationism, which ascribes the origin of matter and species to God.
Institute documents on file at the co-ordinating board say graduates of the program would be able to "design science lesson plans from the creationist worldview" and "refute evolution".
Robert Curl, a professor emeritus at Rice University who won a Nobel prize in chemistry, compared Texas to Kansas, a state whose science standards were regarded as the most aggressive in the United States in challenging Darwin's theory of evolution.
"If this program wins approval, Texas will replace Kansas as the laughing-stock of the nation," he wrote.
Alfred Gilman, who won a Nobel in physiology or medicine, said approval of the institute's proposal would hamper efforts to recruit top researchers to Texas and to implement a $US3 billion ($A3.39 billion) cancer research initiative approved last year.
"How can Texas simultaneously launch a war on cancer and approve educational platforms that submit that the universe is 10,000 years old?" wrote Professor Gilman, dean at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, in Dallas.
A spokeswoman for Texas Governor Rick Perry said the governor had not taken a position but was confident the state's higher education board would ensure any program was academically rigorous.
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| | ken
Posts:532
| | 02/02/2008 6:44 PM |
Alert | | During the second coming, I wonder if you will see the irony when ideas like those espoused in this article become the laughing stock of the heavens. | |
"Knowledge is often mistaken for intelligence. This is like mistaking a cup of milk for a cow." -- Unknown | |
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| | djbaldwin
Posts:246
| | 02/02/2008 7:12 PM |
Alert | | I agree ken | |
"If everyone had the right priorities in life there would always be a shortage of fishing poles"
Mark Twain | |
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| | 8DaysDazed
Posts:86
| | 02/03/2008 7:56 AM |
Alert | | yeah, those Nobel prize winners and myself will sure have egg on our face during the "second coming". Good one Ken. | | | |
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| | missPolitick
Posts:644
| | 02/04/2008 8:52 AM |
Alert | | Why are we not STILL evolving from dirt, 8days? | |
Despite All My Rage I Am Still Just A Rat In A Cage | |
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| | 8DaysDazed
Posts:86
| | 02/04/2008 9:37 AM |
Alert | | we are still evolving, but we've moved on from "dirt" stage. | | | |
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|  | JasonY
Posts:2581
| | 02/04/2008 9:47 AM |
Alert | | I saw some talking chimps yesterday and a flying fish...........kinda cool......... | |
"My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes" -- Lewis Black | |
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| | missPolitick
Posts:644
| | 02/04/2008 10:05 AM |
Alert |
I get that WE are becoming bigger,faster,stronger,but how does DIRT know that it does not need to evolve any longer? | |
Despite All My Rage I Am Still Just A Rat In A Cage | |
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| | ChimneyDuck
Posts:230
| | 02/04/2008 10:42 AM |
Alert | | Who is saying that "DIRT" isn't evolving. | |
http://www.maricopabikeclub.com - Join us for a bicycle ride. | |
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| | missPolitick
Posts:644
| | 02/04/2008 1:47 PM |
Alert | Um, is it?
I suppose MRSA has evolved to become more deadly... | |
Despite All My Rage I Am Still Just A Rat In A Cage | |
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| | 8DaysDazed
Posts:86
| | 02/04/2008 1:55 PM |
Alert | unfortunately it has.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7188741.stm
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