Re: [asa] Culture Wars Come to New Zealand

From: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Jun 30 2008 - 09:12:03 EDT

How does The Privileged Planet challenge biological evolution? How would
viewing The Privileged Planet differ from reading Francis Collins' musings
on cosmological ID?

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Jack Haas <haas.john@comcast.net> wrote:

> ________________________________________________
> Christian creationists have launched another attempt to introduce
> intelligent design into New Zealand's schools. Focus on the Family
> <http://www.family.org.nz/> recently sent intelligent design (ID) material
> (*The Privileged Plane*t CD and booklet) to 400 high schools, requesting
> they be made available to science teachers and school libraries (see Christians
> challenge teaching of evolution <http://www.stuff.co.nz/4599856a10.html#>).
>
>
> Focus on the Family's executive director Tim Sisarich said the material was
> intended to expose pupils to an alternative theory of cosmology.
>
> *"We're a Christian organisation so we believe that God made the planet
> and God made the cosmos … Science takes a theory and tries to establish it
> as the truth, and that's all this is."*
> Full Story:
> <http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/culture-wars-come-to-new-zealand/><http://openparachute.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/culture-wars-come-to-new-zealand/>
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> Jack Haas
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