Few Biologists but Many Evangelicals Sign Anti-Evolution Petition

[FreedomAngel82]

Well gee why am I surprised?

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/science/sciencespecial2/21peti.html?ex=1298178000&en=dedbd71075d864a0&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Snip: < In the recent skirmishes over evolution, advocates who have pushed to dilute its teaching have regularly pointed to a petition signed by 514 scientists and engineers. The petition, they say, is proof that scientific doubt over evolution persists. But random interviews with 20 people who signed the petition and a review of the public statements of more than a dozen others suggest that many are evangelical Christians, whose doubts about evolution grew out of their religious beliefs. And even the petition's sponsor, the Discovery Institute in Seattle, says that only a quarter of the signers are biologists, whose field is most directly concerned with evolution. The other signers include 76 chemists, 75 engineers, 63 physicists and 24 professors of medicine. >

More at the link....

[ingac70]

1. Is this really the way for the US to get ahead in the sciences?

Answer every scientific question with "The omnipotent wizard in the sky did it."?

[Kierkegaard]

2. Or better yet...

instead of researching a hypothesis, just make some shit up and take a vote on it. Facts are so inconvenient!

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Oh yes

I like what Jimmy Carter said once on the issue on Larry King. He said that if there is enough proof within the scientific community you should go with it.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/georgia.evolution/

Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal

Friday, January 30, 2004 Posted: 3:46 PM EST (2046 GMT)

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --Former President Jimmy Carter said Friday he was embarrassed by the Georgia Department of Education proposal to eliminate the word "evolution" from the state's curriculum.

"As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students," Carter said in a written statement.

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But Carter said dropping the word (the word evolution) would leave Georgia's high school graduates "with a serious handicap as they enter college or private life where freedom of speech will be permitted."

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"There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith."

[FreedomAngel82]

5. I love the last sentence

I'll have to remember that one. And thing is all these people in my opinion are so unsure of their faith. I'm a Christian but I've always loved science. My grandfather worked at NASA for several years too and he was a leader in his church and everything. And if you believe God created everything wouldn't that include evolution?

[InvisibleTouch]

6. No matter how many signatures they gather...

...they won't stop evolution from happening. Funny how that works. :)