Comments on: Live Blogging from the SBOE Science Hearings, Part II http://tfninsider.org/2008/11/19/live-blogging-from-the-sboe-science-hearings-part-ii/ A Mainstream Voice to Counter the Religious Right Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:27:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: africangenesis http://tfninsider.org/2008/11/19/live-blogging-from-the-sboe-science-hearings-part-ii/#comment-315 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:27:13 +0000 http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/?p=865#comment-315 I think your statement mischaracterizes the survey: “showed overwhelming opposition to the suggestion that so-called “weaknesses” of evolution are based on science.”

The question the scientists responded to was not about weaknesses in general, or the strength and weaknesses language that is at issue in the Texas standards. If you read the question carefully, it is only about the strengths and weaknesses purported by proponents of creationism and intelligent design. Several of the news reports have also gotten this wrong.

]]> By: James F http://tfninsider.org/2008/11/19/live-blogging-from-the-sboe-science-hearings-part-ii/#comment-305 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:31:29 +0000 http://tfnblog.wordpress.com/?p=865#comment-305 Ironically, the statement on the DI list doesn’t state that the signers deny evolution, even though the DI knows full well that it will be presented that way, as this hearing demonstrates for the umpteenth time. What they can’t produce is data that refutes evolution or spells out “weaknesses” in peer-reviewed scientific research papers, because it doesn’t exist. The deniers have nothing but warmed-over creation pseudoscience rooted in fundamentalist religious dogma.

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