That is exactly what the article said. "University of Idaho President Tim White has entered the debate pitting Charles Darwin's theories of life against religious-based alternatives by forbidding anything other than evolution from being taught in the Moscow school's life, earth and physical science classes. "
The fact that people who claim to be interested in pure science would agree to eliminate all but one hypothesis from consideration belies their stated beliefs in scientific method. This isn't about science anymore. I'm not sure it ever was.
"The fact that people who claim to be interested in pure science would agree to eliminate all but one hypothesis from consideration belies their stated beliefs in scientific method. This isn't about science anymore. I'm not sure it ever was."
It was definitely bad phrasing and a heavy handed tone.
It would have been better to say that Evolution, as only current viable scientific theory will be taught until the scientific community concludes that scientific evidence suggests a different theory.
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Excellent observation.
No one said this. I will say that for TEACHING ONLY science is advanced by the a priori dimissal of all but a single preferred theory. That is what TEACHING IS.
TEACHING IS FOR TEACHING THE SINGLE PREFERRED THEORY.
RESEARCH IS FOR EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES. Research by definition is for exploring alternatives to the prefered theory.
Teaching binary number system as an alternative to base 10 number system is totally inappropriate in most cases.
10 plus 10 equals 20 for most of us. In binary (computer code) 10 plus 10 equals 100 (or 4 in base 10).