Here is a Press Release we issued on Friday that announces IDnet revisions
to New Kansas Science Standards that are being proposed by the Science
Writing Committee and National science organizations.

You can see the IDnet proposal at:

http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/6thdraftrevisions.htm

John Calvert
January 7, 2001
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Intelligent Design network, inc.
   P.O. Box 14702, Shawnee Mission,  Kansas 66285-4702
   (913) 268-0852;   (913)-268-0852 (fax);   IDnet@att.net
                                          www.IntelligentDesignnetwork.org

 January 5, 2001
NEWS RELEASE:

 Contact: Intelligent Design network, inc.
   John Calvert, Managing Director
   816-460-5807 or 913-268-0852

 IDnet URGES KANSAS STATE BOARD
  TO TEACH ORIGINS SCIENCE OBJECTIVELY
 AND WITHOUT RELIGIOUS OR NATURALISTIC BIAS

Shawnee Mission, KS. - John Calvert, a Managing Director of Intelligent
Design network, inc., announced today that IDnet has delivered to the
Kansas State Board of Education suggested revisions to a "Sixth Draft" of
Science Standards.   IDnet urges the Board to remove the naturalistic philosophy
which underpins this latest draft submitted by the previously established
"Science Writing Committee."  The Sixth Draft was informally submitted to
Board members in December and is expected to be first considered by the
newly seated School Board at its meeting in Topeka on January 9, 2001.

 The IDnet Proposal and its accompanying explanatory commentary may be
found at the IDnet web site at:
 http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/6thdraftrevisions.htm

"We understand that the Board will be asked to replace the existing
Standards that were adopted in December 1999 with the Sixth Draft," says
Mr. Calvert. "Although IDnet has no comment on the bulk of the Sixth Draft,
our proposal focuses on one issue, and that is to stop the teaching/preaching
of Naturalism  to our children in the area of origins science - the science
which deals with the origin of the universe, of life and its diversity.
Origins science should be taught objectively and without religious or
philosophic bias."

Naturalism, which is similar to materialism, is the doctrine or belief
that everything we see in the universe and nature is the result of purely
natural causes, i.e. chance and natural law, and that design inferences are
invalid. "Naturalism is not a proven theory," adds Calvert, who is also a lawyer.
"It is a philosophy which attempts to attribute the origin and diversity of
life to mere chemistry and physics, while censoring evidence that might lead
students to infer design as a possible cause for life. Limiting inquiry
and explanation in this manner violates the rules of logic."

William Harris, Ph.D., a nutritional biochemist and IDnet Managing
Director, agrees. "We believe it is fundamentally wrong to use Naturalism to limit
inquiry and interpretation in the area of origins science.  To exclude at
the outset any hypothesis or possible explanation for the origin of life and
its diversity is in conflict with the scientific method.  All evidence
should be considered without prior philosophical bias if science is to
remain the search for the truth."

IDnet is concerned that Naturalism, in addition to its conflict with logic
and the scientific method, will also lead our schools into violations of the
neutrality required by the Establishment Clause of our Constitution.
Further, it will have profound negative effects on our culture and our
ethical and moral values.

"The problem with Naturalism is its censoring mechanism," says Jody Sjogren,
a certified medical illustrator, aviation artist, and the third Managing
Director of IDnet. "It leads a teacher to omit discussion of a growing body
of information that is relevant to the origins issue - evidence which challenges
the traditional Darwinian narrative of the history
of life and supports a design inference rather than a naturalistic
explanation.  Our proposal seeks to eliminate this Naturalistic censorship
and its resulting misinformation from the proposed Kansas Science
Standards."

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 Intelligent Design network, inc. is a member based nonprofit organization.
IDnet promotes evidence-based science education with regard to the origin of
the universe and of life and its diversity.  It also seeks to increase
public awareness of the scientific evidence of intelligent design in the
universe and living systems.

 Intelligent Design is a scientific theory that intelligent causes are
responsible for the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity. It
holds that design is empirically detectable in nature, and particularly in
living systems. Intelligent Design is an intellectual movement that includes
a scientific research program for investigating intelligent causes and that
challenges naturalistic explanations of origins which currently drive
science education and research.