"Critical thinking" is a creationist propaganda line designed to sneak a narrow fundamentalist view of religion into science classes.
Real critical thinking is absolutely the last thing creationists want applied to their beliefs. But under this new law, look for exactly this to happen -- and there is nothing they can do about it.
Students must be indoctrinated in Darwinist dogma by the state! No critical thinking allowed in our government schools!
“Critical thinking” is a creationist propaganda line designed to sneak a narrow fundamentalist view of religion into science classes.” ~ Coyoteman
Fundamentalist creationists - aka YECs (Young earth creationists) and the “ID Movement” present themselves as the only ones who can both be called, “creationists”, and believers in “intelligent design”. Of course, this opens the whole of Christianity up to ridicule where everyone gets painted with the same “Liars for Jesus” brush by atheists and non-YEC Christians alike.
Here’s one of the latest examples:
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/06/dembskis_latest_silliness_1.php