Posted on 09/30/2008 7:21:06 PM PDT by Soliton
AUSTIN — Scientists from Texas universities on Tuesday denounced what they called supernatural and religious teaching in public school science classrooms and voiced opposition to attempts to water down evolution instruction.
The newly formed 21st Century Science Coalition said so far it has 800 members who have signed up online.
"Texas public schools should be preparing our kids to succeed in the 21st century, not promoting political and ideological agendas that are hostile to a sound science education," said David Hillis, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin.
The State Board of Education is considering new science curriculum standards. It is expected to vote next spring. Because Texas is such a large purchaser of textbooks, its ongoing science debate affects textbooks nationwide.
An academic work group proposed that Texas standards for biology courses eliminate the long-held language of teaching students the "strengths and weaknesses" of theories.
The science coalition supports that language change because it says talking of "weaknesses" of evolution allows for religion-based concepts like creationism and intelligent design to enter the instruction. The Texas Freedom Network, an Austin-based group that says it monitors the influence of the religious right, also praises the proposed language change.
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Fights back against what? I guess they will have to throw out Newton (who wrote more theology than science), Kepler, and a host of others who were all theists!
Superstition
So this means that they're banning Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" from being shown in classrooms? /s
Yeah, it always amuses me that the evolutionists are the ones who get the most defensive. They conveniently ignore the scientific method when it doesn’t satisfy their agenda.
Supernatural and religious teaching? You mean stuff that is opinion based rather than fully proven? Like quantum physics? Big Bang? Dinosaurs as reptiles? Piltdown man? LOL!
Contrast this group to this group:
http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org
I’d even be willing to bet there are SCIENTISTS from Texas found here!
Unfortunately not, oh see your /sarc> tag now
If there’s ANY ideological agenda parents should be aware of it’s the secular humanist godless liberal NEA FAILED school agenda.
The atheists got a shot for decades all while excluding others.
It’s WAY past time citizens realize science isn’t interested in sterilizing God from public science class, education in general, etc.
bump for dissent from darwin http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org
The guy’s got a LOT invested in there being no God.
He needn’t worry, God will not force him into His presence in the eternal afterlife.
Choose separation now, choose separation forever.
They’re fighting themselves? Who knew?
I must have been asleep for the past x years. Seems I’ve always heard of the “theory” of evolution - I guess I missed when it was officially renamed the “fact” of evolution.
And replace with what?
Was Newton superstitious? Was Kepler superstitious? How about Bacon? Or Boyle? Or Linneaus? How about Faraday? James Joule? Pasteur? Lord Kelvin? Lister? All theists. Superstitious? Hm?
Evolutionist “just-so” stories.
It's a thoroughly tested theory supported by mountains of evidence.
Apparently yes
Fighting back against the religion that birthed them— Christianity.
Good job rebellious child. Go get em.
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