It looks like Texas is planning to enter the “debate” over the teaching of evolution. After fighting for nearly three years about how to teach children to read, the Texas Board of Education has decided to take on the science curriculum this summer.
One of the goals of the board is to undermine the teaching of evolution by making it a requirement to teach the “strengths and weaknesses” evolution. Vice Chairman David Bradley of Beaumont calls this “hogwash”, but goes on to say that “evolution is not a fact. Evolution is a theory and, as such, cannot be proven. Student need to be able to jump to their own conclusions” (source).
And what better way to have them “jump” to the conclusion that magic man did it than by forcing teachers to bluntly lie about evolution?
0 Responses to Evolution vs. Creationism, the Texas version
Jabster June 5, 2008
“… evolution is not a fact. Evolution is a theory and, as such, cannot be proven. Student [sic] need to be able to jump to their own conclusions.”
Now who can guess what their ‘own conclusion’ is going to be – would it have anything to do with ID perhaps?
Chuck June 6, 2008
Have any of those idiots realized that evolution is a SCIENTIFIC theory? That’s right. Evolution is a scientific theory. A SCIENTIFIC THEORY is an idea that has been proven right numerous times and is one step away from a fact. I HATE it when those idiot Creationists wave the “it’s just a theory” crap in our face. A THEORY is different from a SCIENTIFIC THEORY.
I mean, Christianity is okay as a whole. I don’t have anything against Christians being Christians. However, school is a place where everyone should learn the unbiased version of life. Creationism is extremely biased, which is really obvious.
If anyone remembers that really long rant/diatribe that I posted last week, when the Ford dealership article was posted, then you’ll understand how I feel about the subject.
Chuck June 6, 2008
EDIT: If anyone wants to see the kind of anti-evolution arguments that I really hate, here’s a Scientific American article about said arguments: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=15-answers-to-creationist
Jabster June 7, 2008
@Chuck: Interesting link. One thing that does bring out is just how unscientific the whole ID movement is. Theories are based around providing evidence and hypothesises of why you believes them to be correct; ID on the other hand concentrates on why the theory of evolution is ‘wrong’ and therefore ID is somehow correct. Then again if the main tenet of my theory was that god was the creator and this is really just an attempt to teach creationism is schools by the back door then maybe this is the line I would choose also.