I am a little disturbed by this:
>Ý John Wiester, a member of the American Scientific Affiliation's
>science education commission, meanwhile told Baptist Press, "The
>new Kansas science standards tilt toward indoctrination rather
>than education."
>
>Ý American Scientific Affiliation is an international
>organization made up of 2,500 evangelical Christian scientists
>who advocate teaching evolution as one of many scientific
>theories not an ideology.
>
>Ý "The new Kansas science standards have enshrined philosophical
>naturalism as the official definition of science," Wiester said.
>"The purposeless, undirected Darwinian mechanism of natural
>selection is our official creator. It is by definition protected
>from critical analysis and alternative hypotheses by the new
>Kansas science standards. ... Teaching our children that they are
>the result of an accidental process is naturalistic philosophy
>masquerading as science."
Surely that view is not the position of the ASA? Yet he seems to be
presented as a spokesman.
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