Ohio State
Board of Education Standards Committee
Meeting on March 11, 2002 to discuss Intelligent Design
Streaming audio of the Meeting (to purchase audio and/or video tapes, see this link) The audio clips below were taken from the audio track from some video footage. It's not real high quality. We hope to have copies of the audio from the State Board of Education soon. That should be higher quality. We will replace the clips below with the higher quality audio once we have it and can audio-stream it. The audio clips below appear in the order they actually occurred. The room where the media interviews occurred was very noisy. The quality of those audio clips are the best we can get them. If clicking on the 'Download' option doesn't work, then right click on it, then select the 'save link as' (or similar) option.
From Dr. Jonathan Wells (one of the four panelists) of the
Discovery Institute
The State Board of Education's (SBE) Standards Committee held a meeting on March 11 to listen to a discussion about what role Intelligent Design theory should have, if any, in Ohio's science education standards.
For background
information on the four panel members, see: Originally, the moderator for the discussion was supposed to be Dr. David Haury (an anti-creationist). See these links about him: http://www.coe.ohio-state.edu/edtl/davhau.htm
(his bio) However the moderator was changed to Board President Jennifer Sheets. For more information about this, see the SBE's March 7 press release.
Purchase audio and video tapes The SBE will make an audio cassette recording of the entire discussion available to the public. The cost is $10, including shipping and handling (2 tapes). To order the tapes:
We will purchase our own copies and then audio-stream them in their entirety on this page. Check back at this link in about a week or so afterwards to see if they're available. We were not able to find someone to produce a transcript. The SBE does not provide transcripts either. However, after their April 2002 full board meeting, minutes of this March 11 Standards Committee meeting will be available. Bob Garbe videotaped the entire presentation for his AlphaNova TV program that airs on Cable access 21 in the Columbus, OH area. It will be a couple weeks before it airs. Watch his program schedule for more information. He may also make copies of the video for sale through the American Family Association of Ohio. Watch this page for updates on that in a few weeks. The State Board of Education will also make a video tape of the entire panel discussion available through a private company. The cost is not known yet. On March 15, we were told by the SBE's Board Relations office that they tapes would be available in about 2-weeks. Whey they do become available, ordering information will appear this this link: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/Academic_Content_Standards/acsscience.asp
We have already seen some glaring errors in the reporting on this issue by the secular news media, especially by the Columbus Dispatch and Cleveland Plain Dealer. Please visit our Discerning Media Bias page for information on what kind of errors and misinformation to watch out for. We have also seen some very balanced and fair reporting and want to encourage all members of the press to following those examples.
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/news/releases/february02/2-20-02.1.asp http://Creationists.org/OSBE.html http://answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/design.asp The Discovery Institute http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org |