Who can you trust?

From: Allen Roy (allenroy@peoplepc.com)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 11:47:54 EST

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    Glenn,

    One of your complaints against Creationists has been that they have
    deliberately misquoted and misled the public, especially the Christian
    subculture, about science and evolution. Me experience has been that you
    will not believe ANYTHING printed or quoted by YECs (including myself)
    unless you check the sources for yourself.

    Now my question is, did you check the sources of the News media and the
    press releases from scientific groups and organizations which reported:

    1."elimination of evolution"
    www.wheaton.edu/acg/essays/miller1.html

    2. The Kansas Board of Education rejected evolution as a scientific
    principle
    www.detroitfreepress.com/news/education/qevol12.htm

    3.the Kansas State Board of Education removed biological and cosmological
    evolution from its state Science Education Standards
    www.aip.org/gov/policy7

    4. Kansas Eliminates Evolution From Public School Curricula, By Carey
    Gillam, Reuters Thursday, August 12, 1999; Page A13
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A5
    4598-1999Aug12&notFound=true

    5. In August 1999, the Kansas state board of education raised a firestorm of
    debate over its revision of high school science standards, which omitted any
    mention of evolution.
    http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=32

    6.World: "Americas Kansas rejects theory of evolution"
    Opponents of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution have scored a victory in
    the United States after the board of education in Kansas voted to drop
    evolution as a subject in the science curriculum.
    The State School Board approved by six votes to four a new curriculum that
    eliminates the teaching of evolution.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_417000/417996.stm

    7"Kansas restores evolution standards for science classes"
    Reversing a controversial 1999 move, the Kansas Board of Education voted
    Wednesday to restore the theory of evolution to state school standards.
    The 7-3 decision came after November elections that saw three board members
    ousted after voting to remove Charles Darwin's theory of mankind's origin
    from public school science standards and allowing alternative theories to be
    taught.
    The 1999 vote never banned the teaching of evolution nor required the
    teaching of the Biblical story of creation. But it dropped Darwin's theory
    from standardized tests taken by Kansas students.
    http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/02/14/kansas.evolution.02/

    8. science deplores the recent decision by the Kansas state board of
    education to remove
    references to evolution and cosmology from its state education standards
    www.aaas.org/spp/dser/evolution/issues/aaas.htm ?

    Or did you just assume that Evolutionary Scientists must be correctly
    reporting the facts? Did you go read for yourself the drafts and the
    approved 1999 science standards?

    Who can you trust?

    Allen

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