From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 03:44:17 GMT
Hi all,
I agree with Scott here. There's plenty of idiocy to go around. A
high school teaching Creationism, as backward as this would be,
wouldn't impair our children's ability to think nearly so much as
what passes for United States History. How come people don't get all
bunged up about that, I wonder?
The nonsense of fundamentalist Christianity is the LEAST of our
educational problems, IMO. Even a moderately bright student will
detect the sillyness of Creation v Evolution. What's spooky in its
subtlety is that that same student will graduate believing that the
United States Government (owned and operated by the Fortune 500) acts
everywhere and always in the best interest of of its citizens and all
of mankind.
Folks, Christianity, even at it's silliest fundamentalist worst, is
not our biggest problem. WUASTC.
Best to all,
msh
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On 8 Nov 2004 at 19:43, Scott Roberts wrote:
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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