Saturday, March 04, 2006
White Flags Over Seattle?
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The conservatives on the Kansas board might want to spruce up their résumés..
In an article about a Catholic Archbishop’s take on ID (about which, more to follow), who thinks both evolutionary theory and Intelligent Design are philosophies (at least he’s half right), Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute let this slip:
I hope that Archbishop Joseph Naumann's sensible statement will be covered by the Kansas and national secular media and by religious media internationally. Even if his preferred policy is not likely to be adopted in Kansas public schools (where the Darwinists are trying to eject state school board members for even allowing students to know he pros and cons of Darwin's theory), it is exactly the right approach to be taken in PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS, where Darwinian dogmatism currently goes unchallenged in most biology classes.
Besides the tacit admission that ID belongs in parochial schools, it sounds like the Discovery Institute is getting out in front of a possible electoral defeat for the anti-evolution majority on the Kansas board of education. The Discovery Institute may not be very good at actually discovering anything but it has shown an ability to tell when ID is about to do another imitation of the Titanic.
The conservatives on the Kansas board might want to spruce up their résumés.
