Re: AU complaint as filed

Ted wrote:

> A question for Keith Miller: What do *you* think, Keith? Is this
> really
> quite different from what has been the case in Kansas? I would say
> yes, but
> you're so much closer to that situation. Here in PA, they first
> quiety went
> to people in Dover and tried to dissuade them of adopting the policy
> they
> adopted, for various reasons; but they didn't make the public directly
> aware
> of their difference from the YEC position in such a highly visible
> way, not
> that I can recall.

I' m not exactly sure what your asking here. The "on the ground"
support for the actions here in Kansas is from the Young Earth
advocates. In fact the same people are the driving force that were in
1999 when the attempted changes were clearly Young Earth arguments.
Beginning with the latter part of the efforts in 1999 and continuing to
the present, the organization that is directing things is the IDNet.
The director of the IDNet, John Calvert has taken up the primary
visible role. The IDNet is supported and advised by the DI. But just
as in Dover, and CA and Ohio the local players and the local support is
YEC. The Kansas board members pushing the actions are YEC. The
primary focus of the efforts this time around in Kansas has been to
change the definition of science to include non-natural (ie
supernatural) causes and to define evolution in such a way (unguided,
purposeless) to equate it with atheism and materialism. It is their
equation of evolution with atheism that was fundamental to their
arguments in the hearing last summer.

Keith
Received on Fri Jan 13 11:36:59 2006