Ping!
Like hell it does. By telling students there are different views about evolution it can only add to their education.
Yeah, schoolchildren are at risk if they learn evolution may not be true. All children left behind - lol.
It's a very good article and cuts straight to the heart of the matter, in my opinion.
There's no need to encroach on the rights of parents to teach their children whatever religious beliefs they desire by forcing children to hear one particular religious belief being taught as science in the classroom. Especially when, as the article correctly indicates, the particular religious belief has no basis in science at all anyway.
Only 43,000? Come back when you have some real numbers.
Ping. Get a load o' this.
Trouble is, if you don't believe in Intelligent Design, or at least acknowledge it's as valid as say, Relativity, then you've bought into the notion that the universe was created through CHANCE.
Natural selection, Evolution, Big Bang, whatever - you can't possibly be thinking clearly if you believe the universe was created and that we've arrived where we're at purely through random collisions of subatomic particles.
I have a theory: all land animals are descended from animals that lived in the sea millions of years ago. Let's test my theory! Ohhhhhhh, wait. We can't really test that can we? All we can do is theorize based on accumulated evidence. But we can't test it.
I guess Evolution can't qualify as a scientific theory. But some folks have a lot of faith in evolution. I guess people believe what they want, and if someone's Faith is centered on Evolution, I won't begrudge it.
Darwin's theories are testable?
Really, I thought this was going to be a NY Times headline.
I don't think the President of the United States, or any agency of the Federal Government, has any business commenting on classroom content.
We don't allow the government to dictate the content of our newspapers, so why do we allow it to dictate the content in our classrooms?
I am unable to lay my finger on that section of the Constitution that gives the Federal Government any role whatsoever in influencing or attempting to determine education curricula.
Any scientific theory is subject to revision as technology and understanding progress.
Correction, it's liberal myths that are at risk.
Competition is a good thing, unless you are hiding something.
So, belief in science is not a belief?
I'm not sure public schools can be made much worse.
On the positive side, the Chicago Tribune is running a front page story that Chicago students' test scores have significantly improved.
Either the universe was created or it created itself.
The government has been taking the side that the universe created itself and nobody is allowed to question that or even mention that somebody questions it.
Education is supposed to be something to get people to think, not to restrict thinking to one view. Of course the atheist socialists running things can't have people going around thinking that there is a God when we have such a powerful government to look after us.
I, for one, have never subscribed to the belief that the existence of evolution (in some form) and the existence of God are imcompatible. Einstein himself stated that, "God does not play dice with the universe."
By all means, we know the education establishment limits itself strictly to proven science--like "new math" and "new, new math", whole language, peer teaching, not to mention sex education concepts. (sarc off)
The ID crowd has a simple problem.
They just have to tell us all in exact scientific detail.
How God created the world. Wether or not this also includes defining exactly what god is.