From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 02:43:14 GMT
Marsha,
Christianity did not do that. Some idiot Christians did that. Why is this
difference so hard for you to grasp? Even the Vatican accepts evolution.
- Scott
> [Original Message]
> From: MarshaV <marshalz@i-2000.com>
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Date: 11/8/2004 3:45:37 PM
> Subject: MD Wisconsin School OKs Creationism Teaching
>
>
> Here's what Christianity is doing! What say you Christians?
>
> MarshaV
>
>
> Published on Saturday, November 6, 2004 by the Associated Press
>
> Wisconsin School OKs Creationism Teaching
>
>
> GRANTSBURG, Wis. - The city's school board has revised its science
> curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism, prompting an outcry from
> more than 300 educators who urged that the decision be reversed.
>
> School board members believed that a state law governing the teaching of
> evolution was too restrictive. The science curriculum "should not be
> totally inclusive of just one scientific theory," said Joni Burgin,
> superintendent of the district of 1,000 students in northwest Wisconsin.
>
> Last month, when the board examined its science curriculum, language was
> added calling for "various models/theories" of origin to be incorporated.
>
> The decision provoked more than 300 biology and religious studies faculty
> members to write a letter last week urging the Grantsburg board to
reverse
> the policy. It follows a letter sent previously by 43 deans at Wisconsin
> public universities.
>
> "Insisting that teachers teach alternative theories of origin in biology
> classes takes time away from real learning, confuses some students and is
a
> misuse of limited class time and public funds," said Don Waller, a
botanist
> at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
>
> Wisconsin law mandates that evolution be taught, but school districts are
> free to create their own curricular standards, said Joe Donovan, a
> spokesman for the state Department of Public Instruction.
>
> There have been scattered efforts around the nation for other school
boards
> to adopt similar measures. Last month the Dover Area School Board in
> Pennsylvania voted to require the teaching of alternative theories to
> evolution, including "intelligent design" — the idea that life is too
> complex to have developed without a creator.
>
> The state education board in Kansas was heavily criticized in 1999 when
it
> deleted most references to evolution. The decision was reversed in 2001.
>
> In March, the Ohio Board of Education narrowly approved a lesson plan
that
> some critics contended opens the door to teaching creationism.
>
> © Copyright 2004 Associated Press
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