Thursday, May 12, 2005
Is This Explicit Enough For You?
Okay, you wanted to be there. You wanted to hear the testimony, but it was in Kansas for godsakes. They wouldn't even let you bring your Starbucks into the hearing room -- the reason RSR suspects that the New York Times reporter stayed one day. So here's a little snippet of Science Coalition Attorney Pedro Irigonegaray's cross-examination of Bruce Chapman, President of the Discovery Institute, where he learns that it might have been wise for him to have read the majority draft of the standards before coming to Kansas. The transcipt is coutesy of Night Line where it was first aired.
VOICE OVER -- JIM WOOTEN (ABC NEWS)
He (William Harris) and his fellow ID advocates believe evolution is inherently atheistic. And their goal is to persuade the Kansas board of education to include their arguments against it in the state standards for teaching science in public schools.
PEDRO L. IRIGONEGARAY (ATTORNEY)
If this is all about science and not about philosophy or religion ...
VOICE OVER -- JIM WOOTEN (ABC NEWS)
Pedro Irigonegaray, a Topeka attorney, was the only defender of the state’s current standards.
PEDRO L. IRIGONEGARAY (ATTORNEY)
Where in the standards do you find any reference to atheistic views to be the practice in the state?
BRUCE CHAPMAN (PRESIDENT, DISCOVERY INSTITUTE)
I don’t find them written explicitly in the standards.
VOICE OVER -- JIM WOOTEN (ABC NEWS)
He (William Harris) and his fellow ID advocates believe evolution is inherently atheistic. And their goal is to persuade the Kansas board of education to include their arguments against it in the state standards for teaching science in public schools.
PEDRO L. IRIGONEGARAY (ATTORNEY)
If this is all about science and not about philosophy or religion ...
VOICE OVER -- JIM WOOTEN (ABC NEWS)
Pedro Irigonegaray, a Topeka attorney, was the only defender of the state’s current standards.
PEDRO L. IRIGONEGARAY (ATTORNEY)
Where in the standards do you find any reference to atheistic views to be the practice in the state?
BRUCE CHAPMAN (PRESIDENT, DISCOVERY INSTITUTE)
I don’t find them written explicitly in the standards.
