In the News: Rural School Board Candidate Hasn't Been Forthcoming About His "Intelligent Design" Agenda
Jason Spaceman
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By Nina Shapiro
As a candidate for a school board seat in the semirural locale of North
Mason County along the Hood Canal, John Campbell is pledging to "turn heat
into light." There's been discord in the district lately as board members
have bickered with the teachers union and among themselves over finances
and other matters. A retired communications professor, Campbell says he has
the skills to foster a more civilized dialogue, "restore trust,"
and "establish transparency."
One thing he has failed to disclose, however, is his link to
the "intelligent design" movement and the Discovery Institute, the
Seattle-based think tank that is a leading proponent of the neo-creationist
theory that life and other aspects of the universe came into being not by
evolution but by the work of an intelligent "cause."
Campbell is a fellow at the Discovery Institute and has written articles in
favor of "making students aware of the arguments for and against Darwin's
theory of evolution," including intelligent design, as he put it in a
written statement [NOTE: link is to a PDF] he submitted in the closely
watched Dover, Pa., court case fought over teaching intelligent design
there. (A scathing opinion by the judge scuttled the local school board's
plan to do so and served as a major setback for the intelligent design
movement.) He also co-authored a book with Stephen Meyer, director of the
Discovery's Institute's Center for Science and Culture, called Darwinism,
Design and Public Education.
In a two-page biography posted on his campaign Web site, campbell4kids.com,
Campbell notes that he has co-authored a book, but doesn't give its title.
Furthermore, the site includes no mention of his Discovery Institute
fellowship, instead highlighting his experience in "minor surveying and
major brush whacking" in 1960 and his association with the Boy Scouts, as
well as faculty jobs at the University of Washington and the University of
Memphis.
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J. Spaceman
Rodjk #613
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> J. Spaceman
This is silly. Did they expect honesty from a fellow at the Discovery
Institute?
Silly media.
Rodjk #613
Bobby Bryant
Ah, honesty, hallmark of the ID movement!
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Bobby Bryant
Rodjk #613 <rjk...@gmail.com> writes:
> This is silly. Did they expect honesty from a fellow at the Discovery
> Institute?
> Silly media.
Wonder whether they dug the facts up or got them via a tip.
Desertphile
> the "intelligent design" movement and the Discovery Institute, the
> Seattle-based think tank
Fundamentalist Christian church.
> that is a leading proponent of the neo-creationist
> theory
> that life and other aspects of the universe came into being not by
> evolution but by the work of an intelligent "cause."
Isn't that, well, DISHONEST?
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Ron O
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> J. Spaceman
A fellow at the Discovery Institute dishonestly hiding something from
the public that he relies on for support of his dishonest agenda?
What a surprise. Who'd a thunk it?
Ron Okimoto