Posted on 08/02/2006 9:17:33 AM PDT by JCEccles
Columbia, SC –- After months of debate, today the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee unanimously ratified high school biology standards requiring students to understand why "scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory." The South Carolina State Board of Education adopted the standards unanimously last month, and submitted them to the EOC for approval. South Carolina’s new evolution standard does not require teaching the theory of intelligent design.
The biology standard approved requires students to be able to, “Summarize ways that scientists use data from a variety of sources to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.” This falls under the overall biology standard which says that “The student will demonstrate an understanding of biological evolution and the diversity of life.”
“This victory is an important milestone towards improving the quality of science education, by ensuring that students learn the full range of relevant scientific evidence, including the scientific criticisms of evolution,” said Casey Luskin an attorney and public policy analyst with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. “South Carolina is the fifth current state to require students to learn about scientific criticisms of evolution and this policy helps remedy the problem that most biology textbooks today largely ignore scientific challenges to Darwinism.”
South Carolina State Senator Mike Fair, a member of the Education Oversight Committee, and Terrye Campsen Seckinger, a member of the South Carolina Board of Education, issued a statement applauding the approval of the new high school biology standards: “It is impossible to meet this standard without the discussion of the meaning of critical analysis as it applies to evolutionary science. This is a great improvement over our 2000 standards. Students will now have the opportunity to wholly learn about the theory of evolution. This means that students will have the opportunity to fully discuss all aspects of evolutionary theory instead of limiting discussion to only evidence that might support it.”
No rest for the Darwinists and the ACLU thugs that abuse the legal system to protect Darwinist dogma from free and open inquiry. Light keeps creeping into their dark Victorian dungeons.
Heh. In my son's public high school biology class they discussed the problems with the ToE just this year. Can't be everywhere at once to stamp this kind of thing out, I guess.
A real and substantial backlash against Darwinist thuggery is gathering strength among independent and critical-thinking young men and women across this nation. The Internet helps a lot.
BTTT
'Twont matter. These folks have probably attended a Church service once or twice---so this initiative will instantly mean that it is worthy of the Evo-left's scorn on that alone.
It seems like the private Christian schools and the Christian homeschoolers who teach both creation AND evolution, are turning out consistantly better educated students than the public schools. Which makes me wonder how so much great science could have been produced before the ToE was introduced if believing in creation is such a handicap to learning.
> A real and substantial backlash against Darwinist thuggery is gathering strength among independent and critical-thinking young men and women across this nation.
At least one study ahs shown that when college freshmen are confronted with open and honest discussion of the scientific arguements for and against both Creationism and Evolution, more incoming Creationists turn Evolutionist than the other way around.
Critical-thinking is the nemesis of Creationism.
Darwinism ceased being science decades ago. It has become a religion that Darwin himself would likely find abhorrent.
“This victory is an important milestone towards improving the quality of science education, by ensuring that students learn the full range of relevant scientific evidence, including the scientific criticisms of evolution,” said Casey Luskin an attorney and public policy analyst with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. “South Carolina is the fifth current state to require students to learn about scientific criticisms of evolution and this policy helps remedy the problem that most biology textbooks today largely ignore scientific challenges to Darwinism.”
If they actually teach science, the ID folks are not going to like it one bit as there is no scientific evidence for ID and a tremendous amount of scientific evidence for evolution.
But with the Discovery Institute involved, it looks like another deceitful attempt to sneak religion into science classes, and a particular branch of religion at that.
So, what do you do when some student says ID is a bunch of junk trying, but failing miserably, to reach the level of junk science? Most likely the student would be criticized for bashing religion, just as we see on these threads. But, ID is not religion, right? (Wink, wink.)
Will the standards work both ways? In science classes, all ideas are open to challenge, so the purported global flood should be fair game too. That should be funny, as the only evidence for a global flood is the bible; there is no support for this notion in science. Teach the controversy?
> It seems like the private Christian schools and the Christian homeschoolers who teach both creation AND evolution, are turning out consistantly better educated students than the public schools.
A logical explanation for that is that public schools on the whole *suck* at teaching *anything* of value. Ask a public school graduate what the definition of "science" is. What does the "scientific method" entail. What, *exactly*, are the concepts in Darwinian evolution. Like as not, they will be *woefully* ill-informed.
Good decision in South Carolina... Unlike the Dover Schoolboard case a couple of years ago when the ACLU convinced Judge Jones to deny any competition to the TOE.
Can you provide a link for this "study" that you say favors evolutionism?
I say we support your 'at least one study' position to assuage any evolutionist concerns and help perpetuate the myth that 'critical thinking' is actually more dangerous for Creation.
That way the evos won't mount much opposition and won't figure it out till the 'barbarians are at the gate'.
Whoops.
So....
what *exactly* is the definition of science,
what *exactly* does the scientific method entail,
and what *exactly* are the 'concepts in Darwinian evolution'?
If you knew anything about evolution you would know the answer to that.
Denying it won't make it not so.
>>If they actually teach science, the ID folks are not going to like it one bit as there is no scientific evidence for ID and a tremendous amount of scientific evidence for evolution.<<
Take your best shot. Please provide one example of what you consider compelling evidence for evolution. Since there is a "tremendous amount..." this shouldn't be a problem for you, should it?
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