April 14, 2005
IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, DUCK 'EM:
Evolution backers to boycott Kansas hearings (DIANE CARROLL, 4/08/05, The Kansas City Star)
It looks as if the coming hearings on the Kansas science standards will be a one-sided event.Proponents of intelligent design have lined up 23 witnesses — including one from Italy and another from Turkey — to support their point of view.
But scientists who defend evolution apparently are boycotting the hearings, said Alexa Posny, assistant commissioner for the state Department of Education.
As of Thursday, the state's deadline, only one scientist had agreed to testify and his appearance had not been confirmed, she said.
“We have contacted scientists from all over the world,” Posny said. “There isn't anywhere else we can go.”
It's an eloquent silence. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 14, 2005 10:51 PM
It is eloquent, but not in the way you aver.
Scientists have actively boycotted this event because it is a kangaroo court headed by an ardent Creationist who has predetermined the outcome.
Perhaps you could find, and post, something from the scientists' point of view?
Posted by: Jeff Guinn at April 15, 2005 7:35 AMAt Panda's Thumb, Dembski today offered to debate ID 'any time in any venue.'
A poster immediately responded, OK, let's see you do it in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
There's a silence, all right, but on the ID side.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at April 16, 2005 2:39 PMHarry:
You're kidding right? Milton Friedman couldn't be peer reviewed by Marxists either.
Posted by: oj at April 16, 2005 5:35 PM