Iowa Universities Debate Intelligent Design Campus Presence
Iowa State University will offer an honors seminar critiquing intelligent design, while University of Iowa scientists form Iowa Citizens for Science to explain evolution. Officials say no districts teach intelligent design, but campus faculty view it as a broader science debate and gatekeeping issue.
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Tom Owen
Gazette Ome
Iowa
Iowa State University
University of Iowa
Iowa Citizens For Science
Tara Smith
Iowa Department of Education
Kathi Slaughter
ISU
University of Northern Iowa
Scientists oppose intelligent design as non science
Top American science groups state that intelligent design is not science because its ideas cannot be tested. The opposition includes UNI associate biology professor James Demastes who also critiques the COLLEGES project.
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James Demastes
UNI
What is intelligent design and its stance in science
Proponents view intelligent design as a scientific alternative to evolution arguing that complex life requires an intelligent agent. They distinguish it from biblical creationism, noting the 1987 Supreme Court ruling on its suitability for schools.
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Supreme Court
Plasma arc touted as answer to Linn garbage woes
Cedar Rapids welcomes Louis Circeo of Georgia Tech to discuss plasma arc tech as a potential 90 percent reduction in landfill needs. Ensuring Marion's Future champions the method against Landfill Site No. 2 expansion, seeking Linn County a landfill free zone.
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Dick Hogan
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Louis Circeo
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta
Marion
Linn County
Vic Klopfenstein
Mari
Plasma arc talk to discuss waste solutions in Marion
Plasma arc answers Ensuring Marion's Future brings Louis Circeo to Cedar Rapids for a two day program. He will speak to the public at 7 30 p m Monday at the Kirkwood Training and Outreach Service Center 3375 Armar Dr Marion. He will also meet with media the chamber of commerce board city and county officials area legislators university and industry leaders and regional waste agency board members.
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Marion
Louis Circeo
Cedar Rapids
Circeo
Kirkwood
Armar Dr
Carlos O'Kellys
Chamber of Commerce Board
Cedar Rapids/Linn
Children lose innocence in horror of war
In Baghdad a visitor hears 4 year old Ahmed Yousif describe violence seen on the Internet while 5 year old Ali Najee reenacts gunfire with a toy AK 47 and waters the victims to simulate blood. Three year old Safa asks about prime ministers as her mother worries aloud about politics.
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Knight Ridder
Baghdad
Iraq
Ahmed Yousif
Ali Najee
Safa
Jaafari
Inside I death by own action bomber targets funeral procession
A bomber attack in Baghdad targets a funeral procession causing casualties among attendees including children. Police and medics respond as authorities investigate the incident and secure the scene.
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Baghdad
Cedar Rapids Soldier Dustin Yancey Killed in Iraq
About 100 people attended the funeral for Army Spc. Dustin Yancey, 22, a Cedar Rapids native killed November 4 in Baghdad by an improvised device. Capt. David Langer praised his life during the service.
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James Davison
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Brush Chapel
Army Spc
Dustin Yancey
Iraq
Dustin
David Langer
U.S. Army
Yancey
South Carolina
Baghdad
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