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More Lessons from Dover
I've already documented the lies of board members Bill Buckingham and Alan Bonsell, whose dishonesty regarding who had donated the money to buy the 60 copies of Of Pandas and People. I've also documented the ignorance displayed by Buckingham and Bonsell in regard to what they knew about intelligent design; while aggressively pushing a policy to put ID into Dover science classrooms, their testimony clearly showed that they didn't understand even the most basic things about the idea they wanted in (and they knew even less about evolutionary biology). Today I'd like to focus on board member Heather Geesey. Geesey is the only one of the pro-ID board members who remains on the school board today; all the rest were voted out in November 2005, but Geesey's seat was not up for reelection so she remains on the board. But as her testimony makes clear, she knew next to nothing about intelligent design, yet she voted to put it in to science classrooms in Dover. Here's part of her testimony:
Q Now, you said you voted for the October 18 curriculum change because you liked it. Warms the heart, doesn't it? School board members voting things in that they made no effort to learn anything about. This isn't just the blind leading the blind, it's the willfully ignorant leading the kids we are educating for the purpose of overcoming ignorance. Worse yet, she admitted that she just accepted Buckingham's opinion, while ignoring the informed opinions of all of the Dover science teachers:
Q But you chose to listen to Mr. Buckingham and Mr. Bonsell? This is absolute negligence. If you have control over a school's science curriculum, you need to know something about science. And you need to put in the effort to educate yourself on the issues you vote about. To vote to put a concept into the curriculum that you don't understand and refuse to take the time to understand is unprofessional, willfully ignorant and dangerous to the entire purpose for which you are on a school board. Of course, this is the same woman who made this absolutely bizarre statement during a school board meeting after the policy was passed:
"We are not doing to be sued. It's not going to be a problem. I have confidence in the district's lawyers." Except that the district's lawyers had urged the board not to adopt the policy and told them that they were going to be sued if they did so. The pro-ID school board members were willfully ignorant to the point of being delusional.
More Lessons from Dover | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)
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