Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Barbara Forrest has long experience debating ID hucksters

Bah, i was trying to leave a comment over on the Panda's Thumb, but the site doesn't like my HTML markup.

She appeared on the letters to the editor pages for years back in the '90s in the local paper, the Daily Star of Hammond, LA. The creationists have been trying to introduce their agenda into the classrooms of Tangipahoa and Livingston Parishes for quite a long time. Dr. Forrest and several other professors at Southeastern Louisiana University did their absolute best to counter the assault on science. Her experience here is possibly what galvanized her to take action nationally.

She wrote an article about some of her experiences back in 1997, here and here.

Dembski is probably well aware of this. The man is a known dissembler.

She was my history professor when i was a freshmen in 1989. She was also my professor in philosophy, where i wasn't so crazy for her. (I hate Plato.) However, i'm extremely proud of her efforts to keep evolution in the schools. She's been fearless.

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