Adopt Florida Science Standards

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1. 101
   Name: Ellen Hammond on Feb 1, 2008

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2. 102
   Name: Jennifer Van Bergen on Feb 1, 2008

   Comments: There is no reason that creationism cannot be taught as a belief system, but the challenge to evolution as a scientific doctrine is a challenge to scientific method and process and is turning back the clock.

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3. 103
   Name: Casey Schmidt on Feb 1, 2008

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4. 104
   Name: George Prado on Feb 1, 2008

   Comments: I'm a native floridian even though I have recently moved to AL. As someone who works in the science field I would like to express my concern with people who want to bring the supernatural into the science class. It is not acceptable to teach anything other than natural science in a science class. I would never let my child go to a school where anything other than that would be taught in science class.

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5. 105
   Name: Rose Carolyn Baker on Feb 1, 2008

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   Name: Robert P. McIntosh on Feb 1, 2008

   Comments: An educated person must have science classes that are unencumbered by the non-science of intelligent design and creationism. Robert P. McIntosh Ph.D., retired professor of biology, University of Notre Dame.

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   Name: Fred Welty on Feb 1, 2008

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   Name: ROBERT LEE VAN HEYDE on Feb 1, 2008

   Comments: T he fundamental elements of the modern scientific method was developed by medieval Muslim scientists, who introduced the use of experimentation and quantification to distinguish between competing scientific theories, set within a generially empirical orientation. Radical Islam has smothered all thought not in line with dogma. Do not create that atmosphere in Florida. Do not mix scientific inquiry with theology.

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9. 109
   Name: J. Robert Buchler on Feb 1, 2008

   Comments: The US cannot continue to excel in the world unless we provide the best science education to our young people.

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10. 110
    Name: Steve Kirschner on Feb 1, 2008

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11. 111
    Name: Susan Bottcher on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: If it is important to teach the controversy then create new curriculum for a social science course. Let the funding for this course come from the proponents of Intelligent Design.

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12. 112
    Name: Susan Bottcher on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: If it is important to teach the controversy then create new curriculum for a social science course. Let the funding for this course come from the proponents of Intelligent Design.

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13. 113
    Name: Christine P. Cook on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: I am in full support of teaching documented scientific methods in the Florida public school system.

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14. 114
    Name: Wesley C Davis on Feb 1, 2008

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15. 115
    Name: Patience Mason on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: If you don't believe in evolution, I trust you never use any of the new antibiotics developed to work against the microbes that have EVOLVED so that penicillin doesn't work! And your bad back is proof of un-intelligent design. We must teach science in science classes and religion in the churches.

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16. 116
    Name: Joyce Dewsbury on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: I sincerely hope and trust that the Florida Board of Education will vote to adopt the revised Public School Science Education Standards. It is time for Florida to move into the twenty-first century and not backwards into the eighteenth century. How embarrassing to have received a grade of "F" from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. Surely we do not want to further foment the spread of ignorance in our state. Please vote in favor of the revised science standards. Thank you.

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17. 117
    Name: Cheryl Shepherd-Adams on Feb 1, 2008

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    Name: Gary Gromet on Feb 1, 2008

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19. 119
    Name: Karen Ranasingha on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: I hope the board takes the time to review the quality of the recent responses by school boards speaking out against evolutionary theory. The resolutions include clear misrepresentations of the concepts of evolution. Scientific facts cannot be changed with a vote, and science standards should not be revised to better suit the scientifically ignorant. Perhaps this could have all been avoided if Florida science standards had not been so poorly crafted for so long.

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20. 120
    Name: Bernard Feder on Feb 1, 2008

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21. 121
    Name: Leesa Souto on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Not teaching evolution is devolution or the process of progressing backwards!

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22. 122
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 1, 2008

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23. 123
    Name: Eileen F. Roy on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: As an Alachua County School Board member and a Florida citizen, I strongly urge you to adopt the new state science standards as proposed. Florida's students must be educated to compete globally. Biotech industries Florida seeks to attract will reject Florida out of hand if its students are not being taught what the overwhelming majority of scientists agree on-- that evolution is the cornerstone of biological science. If these new science standards are weakened to include other theories of the origin of life, or if evolution is presented as "flawed", Florida will be the laughingstock of the nation and the world. Please-- our science teachers need clear direction and support for teaching good science. Don't muddy the waters for them and for our students. Intelligent design and other creationist ideas can legitimately be presented in a comparative religion class, but not in science class. Thank you, Eileen Roy

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24. 124
    Name: Kenneth L. Clark on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Please support quality science education in Florida

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25. 125
    Name: Norma N. Zabel on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Florida's economy will not survive if we do not graduate students into the work force who are well educated in this concept. The Board of Education should not bow to that portion of our citizens who want to inject their religious beliefs into the curriculum.

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26. 126
    Name: Paul Hargrave on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: It is beyond doubt that evolution is the organizing principle of biology. It provides the framework for understanding life and its processes. At the molecular level it helps in establishing relationships and lineages. The more anyone learns about biology, the more this becomes obvious.

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27. 127
    Name: Sabrina on Feb 1, 2008

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28. 128
    Name: Jen Cannon on Feb 1, 2008

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29. 129
    Name: Jen Cannon on Feb 1, 2008

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30. 130
    Name: Dennis Wardlaw on Feb 1, 2008

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31. 131
    Name: Dennis Wardlaw on Feb 1, 2008

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    Name: Karla Addesso on Feb 1, 2008

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    Name: Kathleen Cantwell on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Unless this standard is passed, we will be moving backward, not forward in the science education of our children. Florida and the USA are losing ground in the fields of science and math compared to other countries. This will drop us back even more. The world is stunned that some USA citizens are taking such an unscientific stance. On a religous note, what an incredible design is evolution. I am a Christian and I believe in evolution and see no conflict with either whatsoever.

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34. 134
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Science is not a religion. It is a form of deductive reasoning which helps us to understand the Universe/Nature and to improve the human condition with knowledge and understanding. If our society is to move forward we must leave the spiritual and mystic to religion and not to confuse the same with the scientific process.

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35. 135
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 1, 2008

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36. 136
    Name: Tom Obrien, MEd, RRT on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: my florida students are expected to have a thorough understanding of germ theory as applied to respiratory diseases as part of the requirements of becoming a registered respiratory therapists.

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37. 137
    Name: Frank J. Iaconianni on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Besides, no one is stopping any student from learning, or any parent from indoctrinating in their children, anti-evolution pseudoscience on their own time.

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38. 138
    Name: Jane Larkin on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: considering our scientific community it would seem we should certainly do better that "F". Please adopt the revised Pub. School Science Education Standards as drafted. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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39. 139
    Name: Gordon Lawremce on Feb 1, 2008

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    Name: Austin Wilkes on Feb 1, 2008

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41. 141
    Name: Russell Roy Ph.D. on Feb 1, 2008

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42. 142
    Name: Stacy Shor McNally on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Please don't pander to the religious right. Keep our students on the right track to learn science and keep our state competitive.

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43. 143
    Name: Jerome DiMercurio on Feb 1, 2008

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44. 144
    Name: Bradford E. Brown on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: THe anti-science efforts of those who push intelligent design to be taught as science in our schools condem our children to be loosers in the competition with Europe and Asia now and later with Africa and South America in the ecpnomy of theknowledge era

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45. 145
    Name: Stuart Muller on Feb 1, 2008

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46. 146
    Name: Gwen Shangle on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Scientific theory must be taught in the classroom. Other ideas - that cannot be tested or backed up with scientific evidence - are NOT Scientific Theory. The proposed Guidelines do not state that evolution will be taught as "fact" (as many of the opposing resolutions state). Please pass the Guidelines as proposed.

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47. 147
    Name: Harriet L. Lancaster on Feb 1, 2008

    Comments: Let us not embarrass the state of Florida again. This time by adopting intelligent design as our children deserve better, a clear scientific approach. Stand firm!

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48. 148
    Name: Susan Derwin on Feb 1, 2008

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    Name: Mark Pudlow on Feb 1, 2008

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    Name: Matt Young on Feb 1, 2008

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