Rightfully so, creationism and intelligent design are the realm of religious education, not science.
No place for creationism & intelligent Design in Science
It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree that there was no place in Science for creationism and intelligent in the UK National Curriculum programme and I saw it was good.
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ive always wondered what would happen if a scientist was to walk in to an RE class and demand tohave his children taught about the big bang and darwins theories, on the grounds that there is plenty of evidence to support those, but none to support what is being taught in the class.
ID is not science, so it doesn't belong in a science class... That doesn't mean it shouldn't be taught at all, since (imho) it's good to be aware of the different major opinions that exist around the world.
I'm disturbed such advice has to be issued. What next: heresy trials cancelled because, newsflash, earth really does orbit the sun.
This has arisen because a fundamentalist religous group (backed by a used-car salesman of all people) has been given public money to run state-schools under the government's "faith schools" initiative. Typical ideological-puree from Labour.
I'll eschew fashionable anti-Americanism and congratulate our transatlantic cousins for keeping schools secular. Britain has a tradition of smugness over those "wacky Americans" fighting court battles to keep Intelligent Design out of science lessons: well, smile's wiped, 'cos at least America has a constitution forbidding it.
Hopefully this nonsense will kick-start a movement to secularise our state-schools.
This has arisen because a fundamentalist religous group (backed by a used-car salesman of all people) has been given public money to run state-schools under the government's "faith schools" initiative. Typical ideological-puree from Labour.
I'll eschew fashionable anti-Americanism and congratulate our transatlantic cousins for keeping schools secular. Britain has a tradition of smugness over those "wacky Americans" fighting court battles to keep Intelligent Design out of science lessons: well, smile's wiped, 'cos at least America has a constitution forbidding it.
Hopefully this nonsense will kick-start a movement to secularise our state-schools.