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Nature Never Stops Talking
Aug. 13, 2005
Need Help for Reaching the National Press
Whether parent or student, I might have
an interesting volunteer project for anyone interested. We can email
our next door neighbors as easily as any news desk in the country.
These past two weeks my Google Alerts have bombarded my Inbox with news
stories about Intelligent Design, most of it inaccurate news. There is
so much I want to take on yet my days are so quickly gone [hey, that
rhymes]. If you would consider this, here are 5 different areas with
which I need assistance.
Please understand I am talking about 1-2 hours of time a week for any of these.
1. NEWSPAPERS' EMAIL ADDRESSES & SLANT I need contact info
for Newspapers and online news, but I need to know if they are very
slanted for evolution, journalistically neutral or obviously pro
Intelligent Design. For each I need name or department, email, name of
publication [or .com], and state. A phone number would be nice but
optional. I have started the list but sometimes it is time-consuming to
try to find the right person to email or get an email address.
2.
POLITICIANS & SCHOOL BOARDS I also need something similar for
politicians and school boards that are in the news and under fire for
wanting to offer intelligent design as a reasonable theory. I need
email addresses and phone numbers with their names. This is another
internet search and research project.
3. RADIO INTERVIEWS There
are radio and TV programs that are constantly looking for new and
interesting guests. There are services that I could hire to do this but
I cannot afford it. Anyone savvy enough to research this and send me
contact information especially for radio programs that do telephone
interviews with authors and for now, this is a very hot issue and my
book is NEW and my angle is not in response to the controversy but
before the controversy. This would include both Christian and secular
of course.
Of course I would love to do a national TV interview if possible but this is not what I am asking for help on.
4. CURRICULUM COMMITTEES I am totally naive on curriculum
committees. I am in touch with one of the Kansas State School board
members but I would love to have my publisher send my book to the
states that have already legalized teaching intelligent design: Ohio
and Pennsylvania. Is there curriculum people we can talk to, to review
my book? I know Cobb County in Georgia needs help too. They had
stickers put onto evolutionary books simply clarifying evolution is a
theory and not a fact [which is absolutely true and even evolutionists
agree] but a judge overturned it forcing them to remove the stickers.
It is under appeal now.
5. A COORDINATOR - Lord willing, as time
progresses I will get more help and more interest which means more time
again. Lord willing, success can drain my time from writing. This is
what I desire and so I will need someone to help with coordinating.
Generally, creative folks aren't the most organized. Imagine me trying
to explain the same thing to various folks. Imagine me forgetting to
respond to someone. Of course, there is nothing to manage right now as
far as any volunteer help but I believe there are many who care and
want to put feet on those concerns.
There is a a Catholic
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn who is taking a revolutionary stand for
intelligent design since the Catholic church officially embraces
evolution as scientifically true. I need to find a way to reach this
man and get my book to him as a gift and I also believe it will give
him addtional insights to his cause. If I get info on him I will post
it in this blog ASAP so no one tries to do a job that is already done.
IN GENERAL There are colleges, private, religious and public and
politicians, influential leaders and others; that may be looking for a
book like mine - something based on evidence and appealing to the
reader's logic rather than quoting experts vs. experts. Mine presents
nature, the object of the controversy, as the best witness to testify
and I present nature's case to the reader. If you know of someone or
some place. Simply inform me regarding the details and the contact
information. If you are not familiar with my book, please check my
website, download excerpts, look at the reviews and there are several
within this homeschool Blog community that are currently reading
pre-publication copies of the book.
Listen readers, please
do not assume there are a whole bunch of folks reading this and I will
get plenty of help. If you think you might like to help, you may truly
be the only one. At least email me, please. If you have questions we
can correspond or I can call you, if you like. If you want to volunteer
for a week or a month only, that is fantastic and wonderful and greatly
appreciated if you could do that.
When I write, I sometimes re-write and re-write until I feel it is right.
Like you, I have a whole life beside creating an income plus writing
letters to my son in the Army. My book is not my income at this point
but to me, is important in the civic sense. I am now doing book
signings and other items related to the book. I see a need, an urgent
need. The less time I spend in logistics and time-consuming tasks, the
more time I have for writing responses, press releases, etc.
Every single one of us usually have a list longer than our day.
However, for the one or two or three of you that might actually enjoy
such a project or consider it educational for your children in either
"Civics" or "Public Service" or "Media" or even "Fair Debating", please
step forward. The object of my book is natural science, but this
exercise is a practical reality of stepping into the arena.
It is
my desire to combat false science using media tactics to influence
public opinion rather than using research to validate true science.
email: Sam@BestChapter.com or use links from my website: NatureNeverStopsTalking.com
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