At 07:36 AM 08/04/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>Reflectorites
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>On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:05:14 -0500, Susan Brassfield Cogan wrote:
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>First things first. On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 I wrote:
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>BTW what does this mean:
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>On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:43:52 -0500, Susan *Brassfield Cogan* wrote:
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>Are congratulations in order?
Sorry, I hadn't responded yet.
Yes. *Some* people think I write *really* persuasive e-mails! :-)
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>I apologise if I missed a response.
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>SB>In case there's anyone left who hasn't heard this:
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> >http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/elections/docs/boe0802web_txt.htm
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> >And of course I can't resist the opportunity to say to Stephen:
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> >TOLD YOU SO!!!
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>Told me so what? Did I ever say that I thought that the YECs would win? I
>thought it was an outside chance, but unlikely given that YEC is a minority
>position among the general public.
that the Kansans would boot their bony butts off the School Board at the
very next opportunity.
>All along I have shared the ID movement's position that *more* (not less)
>should be taught about evolution, namely its underlying philosophical
>assumptions, and its many problems
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>So from that perspective, this is the best possible result for *ID*,
>even if it is bad for YECs.
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>Now the new Board will have to implement the proposed standards *in
>full*, and that will expose in full view to the public gaze, what
>macroevolution really is, and will permit a full public debate on the
>evidence for it, the controversies even among evolutionists about the
>mechanism(s), and the materialistic-naturalistic assumptions underlying it.
Kansas University has made a pledge to expand evolution education.
Ignorance of evolution is what keeps creationism alive. The
materialistic-naturalistic assumptions are a given. You aren't going to
gain anything by exposing what is widely known to be basic and necessary
for science. Anything else is phrenology.
Susan
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