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Efforts to Improve Evolution Teaching Bearing Fruit

Sarah D. Sparks
Posted: November 16, 2010.

Print: Education Week

When a federal court in 2005 rejected an attempt by the Dover, Pa., school board to introduce intelligent design as an alternative to evolution to explain the development of life on Earth, it sparked a renaissance in involvement among scientists in K-12 science instruction.

Now, some of those teaching programs, studies, and research centers are starting to bear fruit.

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1. Steve Cornell

Who created God?
http://thinkpoint.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/who-created-god/

posted on November 18, 2010
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Evolution is a fine theory which should be taught as what it is a theory. Right now the best one we have.

posted on November 18, 2010
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RE: Steve

From your link: “What does blue smell like?” “Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, God is not in the category of things that are created or caused. God is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.”

-A non sequitur here…

Smell is not something attributed to blue, so for blue anything related to smell would not exists. Similarly, existence is only attributed to things that are created (and observable), so for God, not being created, does not exist.
-I did assume existence is attributed to things that are created (solely to use the words of the author), but it would work equally well if I described them as ‘can be observed’. Any other type of definition of existence would be far removed from anything I’ve read.

I would recommend reading:
Bertrand Russel’s ‘On Denoting’ (It’ll help you make sure that your words describe something factual, and are not misleading you to believe you are describing something real when in fact, it’s fictitious)
Immanuel Kant’s ‘A Critique of Pure Reason’ (An insightful book that tackles the limits of observational knowledge)
Georg Hegel ‘Science of logic’ (A treat into the absurdities of infinite loops, and how a thoughtful philosopher deals with them)

posted on November 23, 2010
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