Preaching the good news of evolution
Feb. 21, 2006 at 11:45 AM
Homeschooling
No longer satisfied with just using the schools to indoctrinate our children in the THEORY of evolution, scientists are now turning to the religious community for help. From the BBC,
US scientists have called on mainstream religious communities to help them fight policies that undermine the teaching of evolution. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) hit out at the "intelligent design" movement at its annual meeting in Missouri. Teaching the idea threatens scientific literacy among schoolchildren, it said.So a competing idea to evolution threatens scientific literacy in school children? I thought diversity was a good thing. What it really threatens is the scientific community's monopoly and disdain for God in the science classroom. Said the AAAS Chariman Gilbert Omenn,
It's time to recognise that science and religion should never be pitted against each other. "They can and do co-exist in the context of most people's lives. Just not in science classrooms, lest we confuse our children."Let's not confuse the poor dear children. God is the creator on Sunday but on Monday through Friday He's not. Yeah, that clears up the confusion real well.
Patricia at Pollywog Creek and Steve Walden at Dad's Corner chime in.
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posted by Pattycake on Feb. 21, 2006 at 3:35 PM
Interestingly, one of the main pushes to get evolution IN the schools in the FIRST place was to have more than one theory in place. Now, all the evidence used in the Scopes Monkey Trial has since been debunked -- and yet evolution stays in the schools, and it is the ONLY theory.