Features:
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The New Creationist Assault on Science Education
State Science Education Standards
- Washington
Education Home Page
- Essential
Academic Learning Requirements
- Science (search for "evolution" and "biological evolution")
- Essential
Academic Learning Requirements
News & Media Coverage
- 11/99 : Evolution of a Controversy - "Almost 75 years after the Scopes trial, a new species of the old Darwin vs. creation debate has come to life in a suburban Seattle community"
- more news by county...
Organizations / Activism
- Pierre
Stromberg's Paranormal Northwest - Home of
the Pacific Northwest Skeptics
- The
Creationism Atlas of Washington State
- an interactive map! - "The
Creationism Movement In Washington State:
Unbeknownst to most citizens, Washington
State has been experiencing a flurry of
grassroots creationist activism.
Incidents range from simple church and
private school lectures, to attempts to
sway schoolboards and pass legislation in
Olympia."
- Skagit County (extensive coverage) "For 11 years, Roger DeHart has been promoting the notion of 'intelligent design' in his public school classroom. This led to a community furor over whether Mr. DeHart was teaching science or religion."
- The
Creationism Atlas of Washington State
- an interactive map! - "The
Creationism Movement In Washington State:
Unbeknownst to most citizens, Washington
State has been experiencing a flurry of
grassroots creationist activism.
Incidents range from simple church and
private school lectures, to attempts to
sway schoolboards and pass legislation in
Olympia."
- Burlington-Edison Committee for Science Education - "In opposition to DeHart and his supporters, local residents Carl Johnson, Ken Atkins and Sydney Stapleton have formed a group..."
- ACLU of Washington
Other Resources
Anti-Evolution Forces
- "Roger A. DeHart calls himself a science teacher, nothing more and nothing less. DeHart's critics call him a creationist who for 12 years has cleverly used euphemisms and pseudo-science to illegally push the biblical version of human origins on his public high-school biology classes in northwest Washington state. (pushed Of Pandas and People in class)"
- "In support of DeHart, a new group called "S.P.E.C.E.S" has formed. Informed sources in the area also report that Roger DeHart has been receiving legal help from the Rutherford Institute, who has also been paying his legal bills."
- "Burlington Alliance Church hosted a creationism video series produced by "Back to Genesis" and hosted by Ken Ham, a young-earth creationist in the fall of 1998. ...The last half of 1998 also witnessed a series of fourteen creationist lectures delivered by local resident Dr. Gary Johnson MD"
- Discovery
Institute - conservative thinktank in Seattle
- Discovery
Institute's Center for the Renewal of
Science and Culture (CRSC) -
...and peddlers of intelligent design
'theory'. "The Center for the
Renewal of Science and Culture seeks,
therefore, to challenge materialism on
specifically scientific grounds."
- Fellows of the Center - includes Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box
- "The
Wedge Strategy" - a
recently-circulated position
paper of the CRSC
reveals an ambitious plan to
replace the current naturalistic
methodology of science with a
theistic alternative called
"intelligent design."
- Discovery Institute's Wedge project Circulates Online by James Still.
- Discovery
Institute's Center for the Renewal of
Science and Culture (CRSC) -
...and peddlers of intelligent design
'theory'. "The Center for the
Renewal of Science and Culture seeks,
therefore, to challenge materialism on
specifically scientific grounds."
