Apparently, America’s biology students are still being used as pawns in the war on science:
One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology.
Of more than 900 teachers who responded to a poll conducted by Penn State University political scientist Michael Berkman and colleagues, 32 percent agreed that creationism and intelligent design should be taught as scientifically unsound. Forty percent said such explanations are religiously valid but inappropriate for science class.
However, 25 percent said they devoted classroom time to creationism or intelligent design. Of these, about one-half — 12 percent of all teachers — called creationism a “valid scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations for the origin of species,” and the same number said that “many reputable scientists view these as valid alternatives to Darwinian theory.”
Why not teach the kids that the world is flat while you’re at it ?
May 20th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Heh, war on science? So, I take it you also have a problem with people who think that global climate change is a farce also?
I’m not going to try to argue your main point here, but it is a pet-peeve of mine to hear “War on Science”. It is a war on evolutionary science perhaps, but that’s all.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Two different issues.
Does climate change ? Of course it does, and it always will.
That’s a scientific fact ?
What can be done about it ? Also, a science issue.
Did human beings originate from two naked people in a garden eating fruit ? I think the evidence to the contrary is quite overwhelming.