School boards in 24 states have now adopted some form of Intelligent Design to fit into its science curiculum, according to USA Today. This article also serves as a decent summing up of the controversy as it has evolved (ha!) of late. One interesting fact I’d not realized is that the largest Discovery Institute (home [...]
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October 29, 2011 |
A poll taken by CBS suggests that 65% of Americans want creationism taught alongside evolution. Of all the disturbing results, however, none are as disturbing as the last in the article – that 60% of Evangelical Christians favor replacing evolution with creationism in schools entirely. Note also that the poll respondents based their opinions on [...] Dr. Gerry Lower at Axis of Logic makes so much sense today that he probably requires a warning sticker on his forehead declaring as much. In reviewing the current push towards ‘stickering’ grade school science text books with warnings that evolution is only a ‘theory’, Lower makes the case that the Creationists simply don’t deserve [...] A fundamentalist Christian who dismisses evolution as “just a theory” has persuaded a Pennsylvania school board to mandate the teaching of “intelligent design” in high school science classes, to “balance” lessons on evolution: When talk at the high school here turns to evolution, biology teachers have to make time for Charles Darwin as well as [...] Frank Rich makes a great point – America is no stranger to Republican-spearheaded symbolic wedge issues in election years, only to see those issues die cold lonely deaths in election-year winters. While it’s true that their most useful function for Republicans is as Democratic tar-pits, Rich may be giving Bush too much credit. Even as [...] According to CNSNews.com, televangelist superstar Jerry Falwell has already figured out how to capitalize on the culture war with a brand new lobby group: he Rev. Jerry Falwell is launching a new organization called The Faith and Values Coalition, which he describes as a “21st century resurrection of the Moral Majority.” The new coalition will [...] The Guardian weighs in on the battle over whether Bible-based creation theory belongs in secular science classes in Atlanta, Georgia: A suburban American school board found itself in court yesterday after it tried to placate Christian fundamentalist parents by placing a sticker on its science textbooks saying evolution was “a theory, not a fact”. [...] A plan to bowdlerize sex education textbooks in Texas could dictate lesson plans for the rest of the country, reports the Christian Science Monitor: Presidential politics isn’t the only realm where the Texas way prevails. As a heavyweight in the $4.3 billion textbook market, the state puts its stamp on materials bound for many of [...] For all the hand-wringing over Values being the pivotal factor in this year’s election, Bob Herbert reminds us of the real reason Bush was reelected: I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election’s outcome as values. A recent survey by the Program on International [...] |
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