@wandeljw,
Quote:the deep philosophical and ideological divides on the board,
Ahem! According to anti-IDers on here there are no " deep philosophical and ideological divides" on this matter. It's cut and dried isn't it? Cretinists and IDiots is cut and dried enough for anybody.
It is logical to think, assuming logical thinking gets top priority, that anybody who talks about "deep philosophical and ideological divides"on this matter is also a complete idiotic dipshit. Anybody doing that has allowed that it isn't cut and dried like all the anti-IDers on here have emphatically maintained non stop for years.
So, and it follows without possibility of rebuttal, that either the editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a complete idiotic dipshit, in which case his thoughts are unsuitable for a prestige thread such as this is, OR that soubriquet is 100% applicable to the gentlemen and ladies who we all know so well and love so dearly.
The latter obviously need not apply to be members of school boards because they, like Don the Dentist, would be unable to get their message across to 19 entrenched Republicans to say nothing of the millions of voters who elected them.
But I do agree with Don that it is stretching language further that anybody ever dared stretch Acronym Nellie's suspender straps to say that evolution is the foundation of modern biology. Witch doctor's herbal cures are closer I would have said and racing pigeon breeding experts from whom Not Sir Charles Darwin got his main idea from. Microscope technolgy is a runner too.
Everybody knew Darwin's idea long before he was born. They just kept quiet about it so that scientific discussions could take place in a proper and orderly manner and marrying off three daughters could at least carry a vestige of respectability.