Comments on: Florida and Antievolution

By: Leslie Pfisterer

Leslie Pfisterer — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 07:15:51 +0000

Have you heard of the “Creation Science Institute” in Fort Lauderdale, Florida???? They have what seems to be unending financial resources and are mounting a campaign against evolution. They are demanding that children be taught the TRUTH of creationism.

By: kmlisle

kmlisle — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 03:29:43 +0000

I teach science in Marion County, Rep Baxley’s home town. Please count me in!

I have been reading and collescting articles on this issue for the last year or so and have attended several presentations on intelligent design held in the Gainesville area, home of University of Florida which is right down the Interstate from Ocala, FL where Baxley resides.
A couple of interesting recent reports include a Mother jones article on how this issue attacks the very basis of science and technology by denigrating the scientific method, which could be descibed as the process that is the basis for our technological civilization. check it out at http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/08/what_do_you_know.html

By: Tenspace

Tenspace — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:35:24 +0000

Count me in for Okaloosa County. I will be more than happy to donate time to take the fight to the creationists. I have been preparing for this for years.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:31:13 +0000

As a reporter, I did one column on “intelligent design” last year. Maybe I’ll have to do another one (not that in this branch of the Bible belt it will have much impact).
Yecke’s appointment doesn’t surprise me at all. The Terri Schiavo nightmare showed how willing Gov. Bush is to kiss up to the religious right (hey, he’s going to need them when he makes that Presidential run he keeps saying he hasn’t yet decided on).
Baxley is notorious for proposing a statute that would let students sue a professor who criticized a position they took in class. He specifically cited intelligent design, but admitted a student who claimed the Holocaust didn’t happen would also be protected; his comment was something to the effect that freedom means hearing things you don’t like (his official position being that his bill would liberate poor oppressed students from the tyrannical grip of Saddamâ€”er, their professors).

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:59:57 +0000

I would love to be involved in whatever way I can. I am a clincal psychologist and on faculty at USF in Tampa.

By: Jim Shirk

Jim Shirk — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:24:29 +0000

Please sign me up to help in any qay — one group we should approach are geologists.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:58:08 +0000

In response to your comment on my post at FloridaBlues, sign me up for the fight against ID. I’m not a science teacher (I teach history), but I am seeing the consequences of that silliness in my area too. I fear for Florida.

By: Ruth D'Eredita

Ruth D'Eredita — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:59:24 +0000

Please include me among those willing to work against the devaluing of science education in FL via “Intelligent Design”–or, as I heard it called lately, “creationism in a cheap tuxedo.”

By: Charles W. Smith

Charles W. Smith — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:54:38 +0000

I can use two factors, each apparently agreeable with religionistsm ti prove that christianity is a fraud.

Factor 1: God is successful

FActor 2: Evolution is the result of intelligent design.

This leads to the conslusion that we are doing what we were designed to do, but the fact is we do only one thing, we create new knowledge. Therefore, that is what we were designed to do, and christian ‘conservatism’ and teachings is anti-god.

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:04:50 +0000

Please add my name & location (Gainesville, home of U of Fla) to the list.