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Dawkins chimes in again..on ID
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1559743,00.html> Richard Dawkins, once again, asks to be heard.
Is anyone listening?
sigh.
One side can be wrong
Accepting 'intelligent design' in science classrooms would have disastrous consequences, warn Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne
Thursday September 1, 2005
The Guardian
It sounds so reasonable, doesn't it? Such a modest proposal. Why not teach "both sides" and let the children decide for themselves? As President Bush said, "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes." At first hearing, everything about the phrase "both sides" warms the hearts of educators like ourselves.
and he lists a number of 'arguments worth having'
The "Cambrian Explosion"
The evolutionary basis of human behaviour
Sexual versus natural selection
The target of natural selection
Natural selection versus genetic drift
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