Articles in the Wilmington, North Carolina Star News on Tuesday and Wednesday report that the Brunswick County (NC) School Board is looking for a way to teach creationism in the schools. The issue was raised at Tuesday's board meeting by parent Joel Fanti who told the board that it was unfair for evolution to be taught as a fact. Fanti said: "I wasn't here 2 million years ago. If evolution is so slow, why don't we see anything evolving now?" School board member Jimmy Hobbs responded: "It's really a disgrace for the state school board to impose evolution on our students without teaching creationism. The law says we can't have Bibles in schools, but we can have evolution, of the atheists."
School board Chairwoman Shirley Babson said she does not agree with teaching evolution, but the state legislature requires it. Board attorney Joseph Causey said it might be possible under state law to add creationism to the curriculum if it does not replace the teaching of evolution. Superintendent Katie McGee said her staff would research the issue. Meanwhile, according to the Star News, the county school system offers a high school Bible as Literature course. However it is not being taught this year because no students signed up for it.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
North Carolina School District May Add Creationism To Curriculum
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"...Bible as Literature course...is not being taught this year because no students signed up for it."
LOL! Apparently, high school students are not nearly as stupid as some adults want to think they are!
Dover, Dover... Hmm. Never heard of it, sorry, can weeze have our creationism now?
These people, generally, have the Bible read **to** them, like small children with a bed time story, and like such stories, the baby sitters gloss over the bits they feel they don't need to know about. Its not surprising they can't, haven't, or don't comprehend, anything that's been written about the "last" time they tried this BS. Or.. Maybe they are just trying to bankrupt all secular state schools, then claim its the school's/state's fault that they have to send their kids to Bable schools, due to none of the regular ones having any money left...
...and the slide into being an idiocracy continues....
It is typically the fearful or closed-minded zealot who excludes the open discussion of opposing opinion. Let children hear both theories and think through origins for themselves.
I think letting children "get both sides" would be fine -- if both sides consisted of peer-reviewed, rigorously-tested scientific studies. Once "Intelligent Design" gets past the accepted scientific venues of the day (you know, societies of actual geologists, biolologists, anthropologists, and other scientists and their peer-reviewed publications), I'll be one of the first to welcome it into my child's classroom. In the meantime, I'm not holding my breath waiting.
"Intelligent Design" boils down to the argument that "it's too complex for us to POSSIBLY understand." First, no, it isn't, and most of the things they use as examples we CAN explain and DO understand. Second, if you'd held the same discussion a hundred years ago, CANCER would be in the same boat -- and yet today, because scientists and doctors DID NOT STOP at "complicated," more people, probably including someone you know, survive cancer every day. Two hundred years ago, the same argument could be made for "sepsis," which was, quite frankly, people dying because doctors of the day didn't realize that WASHING THEIR HANDS might prevent disease.
We've come a long way, baby. And we didn't do it because we threw up our hands when things got "complicated."
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