RE: [asa] EU proposed regulation of creationism and ID

Reminds me of when my grandfather forbade his only daughter to date that
no good Catholic, college football player, Jimmy Fischer. You can see
how that turned out.

Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org

 -----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Don Nield
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 5:42 PM
To: George Murphy
Cc: David Campbell; AmericanScientificAffiliation
Subject: Re: [asa] EU proposed regulation of creationism and ID

At www.assembly.coe.int one can find posted Document 11297, dated 8 June

2007, titled "The dangers of creationism in education", Report of
Committee on Culture, Science and Education: Rapporteur, Guy Lengagne.

The summary reads:/
/

"The theory of evolution is being attacked by religious fundamentalists
who call for creationist theories to be taught in European schools
alongside or even in place of it. From a scientific view point there is
absolutely no doubt that evolution is a central theory for our
understanding of the Universe and of life on Earth.

Creationism in any of its forms, such as “intelligent design”, is not
based on facts, does not use any scientific reasoning and its contents
are pathetically inadequate for science classes.

The Assembly calls on education authorities in member States to promote
scientific knowledge and the teaching of evolution and to oppose firmly
any attempts at teaching creationism as a scientific discipline."

The report contains a draft resolution of which paragraph 7 reads
"Creationism has many contradictory aspects. The “intelligent design”
theory, which is the latest, more refined version of creationism, does
not deny a certain degree of evolution but claims that this is the work
of a superior intelligence and not natural selection. Though more subtle

in its presentation, the doctrine of intelligent design is no less
dangerous."
Don

George Murphy wrote:
> David -
>
> What's the source of this? It may be true but it sounds like Denyse
> O'Leary style disinformation.
>
> Shalom
> George
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Campbell"
> <pleuronaia@gmail.com>
> To: "AmericanScientificAffiliation" <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:35 PM
> Subject: [asa] EU proposed regulation of creationism and ID
>
>
>> The information I received claims that a committee report that calls
>> creationism and intelligent design philosophy threats to democracy
>> which must be repressed was passed by the committee on education and
>> culture and is going to the entire EU parliament for possible
>> endorsement in three weeks.
>>
>> I don't know if or how creationism and ID were defined, etc. Anyone
>> with more info?
>>
>> --
>> Dr. David Campbell
>> 425 Scientific Collections
>> University of Alabama
>> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
>>

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Received on Mon Sep 24 02:34:19 2007