01.15.06
Strategy: Use the wrong approach
Once again the ID question, this time in a philosophy course, reaches the courts:Mercury News, and once again the wrong approach makes life easy for Darwin fanatics, now emboldened to suppress the last whisper of Darwin dissent.
Maybe this strategy of using the wrong approach over and over, and losing each time will serve a ‘higher’ purpose: debunking Darwin’s theory, leaving the schools without either ID or Darwin’s bad theory.
Mountain towns atop discussion on ‘intelligent design’
JULIANA BARBASSA
Associated Press
FRAZIER PARK, Calif. - Houses of scholarship and worship have peacefully shared a roof for years in the mountains dividing the conservative San Joaquin Valley from the left-leaning Los Angeles basin.
Parishioners of the Foursquare Church gather at the local high school on Sundays and Pastor Fred Rose preaches to his Evangelical Free Church flock at Frazier Park Elementary.
But when a religion-based alternative to evolution was introduced into a high school class taught by a preacher’s wife, the discussion moved from classroom to courtroom and put the region at the center of a national political debate.
“It’s trying to impose a religious perspective on the curriculum,” offered Jim Lowery, a wilderness survival instructor who was working on a cross word puzzle Friday at the Dream Castle Cafe, where everyone is well-versed on the topic and neighbors hash out differences over cups of coffee. “People can have a religious perspective, but don’t say it’s science.”
At issue is whether the class, “Philosophy of Design,” crosses the constitutional line separating church and state by lending credibility to “intelligent design,” a theory that life is so complex it must have been created by a higher being.