The National Center for Science Education, a body that fights creationists' attempts to introduce intelligent design studies into science classes, says that it accompanies about eighty struggles every year. Two struggles that culminated in the last month are taking place in Texas and Louisiana
Next week, February 12, will mark the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, but people are still hotly debating his theory of evolution.
The fight in Texas will be decided on the edge of Cole
At a recent hearing before the Texas State Board of Education, scientists and conservatives exchanged heated arguments about the law requiring science textbooks to cover the strengths and weaknesses of the theory of evolution. Evolution deniers control seven of the council's 15 seats and are backed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry. The chairman of the council, Don McElroy, a dentist, is a creationist who believes that the earth is a few thousand years old and not billions as most scientists think. The council will decide on the issue in March.
In a close vote held on January 23, 2009, the Texas Board of Education approved a change to the science education standard that removed the requirement to teach strengths and weaknesses, which had been proposed in 2003 by board members who tried to dilute the treatment of evolution in biology textbooks that were then being prepared. The removal of the "strengths and weaknesses" language represents, in the opinion of the Science Education Council, a victory for science education in Texas.
The local newspaper Dallas Morning News called Zot on January 23, 2009 a failure for the amendment that the conservatives are trying to introduce, but the fight is not yet over, a number of scientifically unjustified changes to the textbooks in biology and earth and space sciences were approved at the last second. The defenders of integrity in science education in Texas plan to expose the flaws in these decisions and hope to reverse the decision when the council votes on the final text at its meetings at the end of March.
In Louisiana they want to allow every teacher to teach what they want
The Louisiana State Board of Education, which is responsible for elementary and secondary education, adopted guidelines on January 15, 2009 that will allow teachers to use resources not found in regular textbooks about "controversial" topics such as evolution and global warming. Louisina's new rules "will guarantee teachers in the state their right to teach the scientific evidence for and against Darwinian evolution" according to the Discovery Institute, the organization that promotes the concept of "intelligent design". In contrast, Barbara Forrest, a Darwin supporter from Hammond, Louisiana, tells Science magazine: "We expect to see Discovery Institute books in schools across the country as a result of the decision."
The Louisiana school board also removed the regulation that banned the study of creationism or intelligent design, saying the ban was not necessary. "The creationists got what they wanted," said Patsy Peebles, a retired science teacher from Louisiana.
Opposition to the Discovery Institute is led by the National Center for Science Education, a pro-Darwinist research center in Oakland, California. The center insists that the theory of intelligent design is a subtle way of introducing religion into science classes, which the courts have declared unconstitutional. "The term 'Strengths and Weaknesses' has been spread throughout the United States as a slogan for bringing creativity in through the back door," said Office Director Eugene Scott in an appearance before the Texas School Board.
Similar proposals have been made or are about to be made in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, according to Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education. According to him, in a typical year the center follows about 80 events of creationist activity in the US and abroad" said Branch.
The issue is not going away, wrote John West, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in May 2008. “Although Darwinists do their best to eliminate and neutralize anyone who raises questions about neo-Darwinism, we still have free speech and they cannot prevent people from hearing about The debate in the public arena, it doesn't matter how hard they try."
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Meir:
You think that without the "morality" of the Torah everyone would become murderers and thieves.
Probably it is because you feel that without the Torah you would become like this.
I can't disagree with you on that.
Your general claim, however, is clearly wrong.
There are lots of secular people and almost none of them are criminals.
Apparently, in an internal and essential way - everyone is better than you.
Forgive me Meir, but where exactly is it written that if the universe was created without a guiding hand there should be serial killers?
Are you claiming that the one who follows the ways of religion is a more moral person?
Is a person for example a rabbi - who attacks his student (not only with a stick on his hand) a more moral person in your eyes because he follows the ways of religion?
So do us a favor and don't generalize - not everyone who is not religious is immoral. And not everyone who is religious is moral.
And in general, the universe was created with a creator (or a creator 🙂) with the help of the flying spaghetti monster, who created the stars, the earth, and of course, to deceive us all, the creation soup in wet Bolognese.
There is only one possibility to be so stupid and to believe in such an ignorant way that the universe was created by itself all of a sudden like this without a guiding hand and without a creator and maker. It is simply the most convenient Torah. Everything is allowed to commit adultery and murder if possible. There is nothing that is forbidden to steal, cheat, because we are a kind of animal and in the strong nature A winner, there is no more fun than that, everything is empty, etc.
Haim. Will you change your mind if he doesn't do it by tomorrow?
Haim:
And when will this happen?
God the Lord of the world will destroy all the monkeys in the world
In response to all creation deniers
And it will mean that those deniers of creation with their own hands will cause the destruction of the monkeys.
The genetic code was created (constructed) by another life form (that is, life) and it is possible that this life form was created
By evolution!
Haim you are wrong - Darwin is the name of a genius who was exiled to the light of the fixations of snakes
You are confusing
Darwin is the name of a snake
One of me the serpents that was exiled from ascending to Noah's ark
and did not survive the great flood
What is so scientific about calling this or that party stupid?
After all, each side fortifies its position and is sure that it is right.
Does this indicate that justice was done to him?
All the dealings around this question are stupid and unnecessary.
There are 2 types of creationists, those who make a fuss about it like the dentist who knows that most of the religious innocents will come to him for treatment, those who are not interested in the truth at all. And dumb innocents who, apart from having mercy on them and God, have nothing to do with them.