Allen,
You have quoted a number of mostly journalistic reports with the
implication that they are gravely in error. This is not always the case.
Further, journalists are notorious for exaggeration, jumping to
conclusions, and other errors. This is quite different from the level of
accuracy expected from referred journals and other serious publications.
To be sure, authors do not always measure up, but I have seen numerous
retractions of errors that the authors have caught, or that have been
brought to their attention. I have also seen sharp criticism of
misconstrued citations in the journals in which the articles appeared. I
have seldom seen such corrections in the YEC publications. Further, Glenn
has found so many errors in YEC publications in the past that he checks
each. I'll bet that he also checks the information in the popular press.
I have to conclude that your intended defense is misconstrued and
inadequate. This comes from one who was YEC until he found that they had
misrepresented both theory and data.
Dave
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:47:54 -0700 "Allen Roy" <allenroy@peoplepc.com>
writes:
> 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¬Found=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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