Posted on 03/10/2006 8:09:38 AM PST by LouAvul
South Carolina (AP) -- The state Board of Education on Wednesday rejected a state panel's proposal to change high school standards on evolution by calling on students to "critically analyze" the theory.
Science teachers had complained that although critical analysis is part of all science, the wording was really a backdoor attempt to force educators to teach religious-based alternatives. In a 10-6 vote, board members agreed.
The Education Oversight Committee, a school reform panel made up of lawmakers, teachers, parents and other community members, recommended the change last month. Panel member Senator Mike Fair, R-Greenville, has said it was intended to introduce students to challenges to evolutionary theory.
Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum, a Democrat, has called the effort "a ploy to confuse the issue of evolution so that ultimately evolution won't be taught."
Officials disagreed over the effect of the vote.
Education department officials say the vote leaves previous science standards adopted in 2002 in place. But Representative Bob Walker, R-Landrum, said both the Education Oversight Committee and the Board of Education must agree on new standards.
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You see, as long as we brainwash kids into thinking they came from animals, then they will act like animals.
And, everybody knows, animals obey the nearest master.
Time to abolish public/gubmnt thought control institutions.
Ahhh, the community school board. One of the last havens of left-wingers and secularists.
Breaking crevo news.
I don't see how that follows.
Uh-oh. PH has been pinged. Civility is out the door. I wonder how many posts before someone compares Christians to the Taliban or Iranian Mullahs?
Why is it that only evolution suffers from "bottom up" protests. Normally debates about a scienctific theory take place amoung experts in the topic. Then it filters down to the research level, then the college level, then the high school level, and so forth. Why are IDers insisting that for evolution this process work the other way around? Is it because IDers can't debate real experts, so they just go straight to the kids? That's very cowardly.
NO. Neither 'the chilldruun' nor many FReepers are capable of critically evaluating evolution/creation. One requires a particular statement of faith and the other an incompatible and contrary statement of faith. It's like (analogous to) a photon as wave and particle, it is both/neither but which depends on the experimental observation. Or the holy triune. My tagline applies as well to FReepers as progressives.
Democracy is the rule of fools by fools. American suffers from cacocracy.
I've just got to ask. Without knowing the source (it had absolutely nothing to do with evolution or ID tho'), do you agree or disagree with the following finding:
"The Task Force finds that the most reliable information is produced by recognized, respected professional organizations which adhere to a strict standard of objective, peer-reviewed scientific study and which represent the consensus of the scientific community."
Great... the classic evos are communists bit...
By the way, real science is capitalistic. The more correct a theory is, the more likely that it will be useful, and more people will conduct research into it.
Interesting how it's the IDers that are trying to use the government to force ID into schools. Rather like how a communist would do it...
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Again highlighting that private schools/homeschooling would solve this problem entirely. Let the people who don't want to learn science learn babble instead (flat earth, 5000 year old earth, fossils are tools of satan, quantum mechanics is secular-speak for Jesus, etc). That way, they only destroy their own education. They want to stay pre-enlightenment, great for them. They'll have company in a few sandy countries.
"Uh-oh. PH has been pinged. Civility is out the door."
And it started with your own post.
Everybody be nice.
The only trouble with what you're suggesting is that their children, who don't deserve it, will be cheated out of an education. Bad education carries with it many negative externalities, which is why it makes good sense for the government to ensure some minimum education standards.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not an advocate of public education, just some form of government accredidation or certification of certain minimal standards in science, civices, history, geography, and literature.
And creation science most definitely should NOT receive any government accredidation. Home schoolers MUST teach their children about evolution. If they want to teach them some stupid "alternatives," well, then there's not much we can do to stop them. But their children must have a solid grasp of evolutionary theory.
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