Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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Intelligent Design advocate lauds state plan on teaching evolution (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2002/10/23)
| Quote | "Our slogan to the press is, Teach the controversy,' " said Johnson, widely regarded as the father of the modern intelligent-design movement.
Ohio's decision to allow that controversy in science classrooms has drawn fire from the science community, which has accused the intelligent design advocates of attempting to slip religion into the classroom by the back door.
That doesn't bother Johnson, who said the scientific establishment keeps the Darwin "myth" afloat by controlling funding and keeping research it doesn't like out of scholarly journals. Ohio, Johnson said, has "liberated" teachers to teach all sides of origins.
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The article dances around the political aspect of Johnson's talk. We have the indication of press manipulation, and elsewhere there is mention of planning in Kansas being less well done than it was in Ohio. Hello? The press just doesn't seem to get it.
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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