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The Silenced Hearings

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In June of 2004, the Kansas Sate Board of Education received two entirely different recommendations for science standards regarding the origin of life and its diversity from the 26-member science writing committee. These were referred to as the Majority Report (Krebs Group Standards) and the Minority Report (Harris Group Standards). The purpose of the hearings was to offer public testimony from science and education experts about the two standards.

Deanna Schoenberger was shocked by what she learned from these hearings, as well as the outcome, and it has motivated her to create a brief summary report of the event that the public could appreciate. This well laid out book presents a clear 2-3 page summary of the major points presented by each speaker, including color photos of each speaker and drawings and diagrams to help clarify the scientific points for the layman. Not only will you hear first-hand testimony from some of the well-known scientists in the ID movement like Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, Jonathan Wells, and Charles Thaxton, but you will hear from other lesser known, but impressively qualified scientists, such as Edward Peltzer, John Sanford, Ralph Seelke, Robert DiSilvestro, and Giuseppe Sermonti. Attorneys Pedro Irigonegarary and John Calvert also provide expert testimony on how origins can be taught objectively in the public schools.

The Silenced Hearings is highly recommended as a very readable introduction into the origins controversy, and as a resource guide for anyone involved in science education standards. It works well as a stand-alone book, but is even better when ordered as a kit with the 2-hour (V064) or 5-hour (V065) video recording of the Kansas School Science Hearings.

• The Louisiana Governor signed into law the Science Education Act, ensuring the state’s teachers their right to teach the scientific evidence both for and against Darwinian evolution.

• ACLU Executive Director Marjorie Esman said that if the Louisiana Science Education Act is utilized as written, it should be fine, while the American’s United for Separation of Church and State have been quick to misrepresent the facts.

• Is critical thinking subversive to science? Reactions to the Louisiana Science Education Act by David Tyler

• The Puzzle of Orphan Genes, video lecture by Dr. Paul Nelson (at Mackenzie University, Brazil. English & Portuguese—fast forward to the 7:00 minute mark where the lecture begins). This is one of the best lectures we have seen outlining the genetic evidence that poses serious challenges to the Theory of Common Descent.

• The bacterial flagellum can be fitted with a clutch (Science, June 2008): literature report by David Tyler

• Act now and save 50% on our three best-selling ID DVDs before our “Where’s the Beef” special ends.
  

• Expelled to open in Canada June 27

• Yoko Ono Copyright Suit Expelled from Federal Court

• Expelled reaches #5 spot in political documentaries domestic boxoffice receipts and #12 spot for all documentaries.

• The Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) recognizes Ben Stein with its "Freedom of Expression Award"

• Check out the latest Expelled reviews and responses to critics at the ARN Movie Resource Page
  

• Michael Behe on Kenneth Miller’s new book

• How Punctuated Equilibrium Has Challenged Contemporary Evolutionary Biology by Robert Deyes

• Will the Multiverse Landscape Ensure the Triumph of Intelligent Design? by Denyse O'Leary

• Review of Christoph, Cardinal Schoenborn's Chance or Purpose?  by Denyse O’Leary
  

"This freedom to doubt is an important matter in the sciences and, I believe, in other fields. It was born of a struggle. It was a struggle to be permitted to doubt, to be unsure. And I do not want us to forget the importance of the struggle and, by default, to let the thing fall away. I feel a responsibility as a scientist who knows the great value of a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, and the progress made possible by such a philosophy, progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought. I feel a responsibility to proclaim the value of this freedom and to teach that doubt is not to be feared, but that it is to be welcomed as the possibility of a new potential for human beings. If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter. I expect in the next lectures to discuss that very point and to try to demonstrate that it is important to doubt and that doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of very great value."

– Richard Feynman, "The Meaning of It All", p. 28