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 Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:06 am Post subject: In the News: Intelligent design has place in science lesson |
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Donald MacLeod and agencies
Friday June 1, 2007
EducationGuardian.co.uk
The row over teaching the theory of intelligent design in science
lessons was reignited today by the Church of England's new head of
education.
The Rev Jan Ainsworth, who is responsible for more than 4,600 CofE
schools, said intelligent design could form part of discussions in
science lessons under the heading of history of science.
Intelligent design - the argument that living species are too complex
to have evolved through Darwinian natural selection and must have a
"designer" - is dismissed by the vast majority of scientists.
Ms Ainsworth told the Times Educational Supplement: "While it is not
something I would subscribe to, it is a recognition that there are
different ways of looking at the evidence.
"You would get howls of protest from the scientific community, which
would say there is absolutely no place for it in the curriculum. But
you could do it in history of science," she added, pointing out that
religious education lessons in CofE schools include discussions of
different beliefs.
The church today hastened to play down the significance of her
comments.
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Read it at
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2093476,00.html
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JTEM
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:06 am Post subject: Re: In the News: Intelligent design has place in science les |
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Jason Spaceman <notrea...@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:
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The Rev Jan Ainsworth, who is responsible for more
than 4,600 CofE schools, said intelligent design
could form part of discussions in science lessons
under the heading of history of science.
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Where doesn't religion stick it's head?
Might as well keep all of it out of science classrooms
and put it in a Comparative Religion class...
After all, why just the fundy Christian take on
creationism? Might as well teach the students about
ALL the creationist myths. |
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Mike Dworetsky
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| Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:06 am Post subject: Re: In the News: Intelligent design has place in science les |
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"JTEM" <jtem01@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1180771398.818645.206800@u30g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
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Jason Spaceman <notrea...@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:
The Rev Jan Ainsworth, who is responsible for more
than 4,600 CofE schools, said intelligent design
could form part of discussions in science lessons
under the heading of history of science.
Where doesn't religion stick it's head?
Might as well keep all of it out of science classrooms
and put it in a Comparative Religion class...
After all, why just the fundy Christian take on
creationism? Might as well teach the students about
ALL the creationist myths.
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Absolutely. After all, many schoolkids in the UK are African-descended (not
to mention in the USA), and they would undoubtedly be fascinated to learn
about the African Vomit God Bumba:
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/african-mythology.php?deity=BUMBA
Except for the grosser aspects, it sounds a lot like basic Genesis, except
that once everything was ready for the Earth's inhabitants, he obligingly
wandered off and was never seen again.
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Mike Dworetsky
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