Further to “Entomologist surprised his name is included in a retracted anti-Darwin paper (but surely he also wouldn’t want his name appearing on a pro-Darwin paper at present? That’s like just so not keeping up with the news … ): Time Magazine has published a screed that should warm the cockles of the hearts of unionbots everywhere: “Creationism in Schools – On the Taxpayer’s Dime”:
According to Politico, 14 states will spend a collective $1 billion in 2014 on vouchers for private and religious schools that teach kids to mistrust not only the science of evolution, but also cosmology, geology, biology and even math. Twelve other states—including bright blue New York—are considering following their lead.
Occasionally the programs don’t just “teach the controversy,” as their backers like to say, but something darker. Evolution, according to one set of texts, is a “wicked and vain philosophy.” Children are taught to “discuss the importance of a right view of evolution,” a view that does not—no surprise—include an enthusiastic embrace of Darwin.
Note the sly adjective “occasionally.” In short, science writer Jeffrey Kluger didn’t find much, but never think that’d stop him from claiming that “14 states will spend a collective $1 billion in 2014 on vouchers for private and religious schools that teach kids to mistrust not only the science of evolution, but also cosmology, geology, biology and even math.”
Remember the youth slogans of old: Question everything? No more. Now the cry is: Believe anything if a PhD somewhere does.
Kids: Heads up! Disbelieve whatever Jeffrey Kluger tells you. Find other sources instead.
This is a guy who conflates a few schools doing something that he disapproves of (and maybe you and we would too) to the whole whack. If your science education is teaching you to think like Jeffrey Kluger wants, that’s one problem right there. We can wrap it.
Note, we only said “one problem.” The mediocrity swamping education across the United States is no more the fault, exclusively, of Darwin’s defenders than it is of his opponents. The system itself is obsolete. Many kids would learn far more on their own; it’s just we don’t want them learning even half of that. But a school should do more than just slow a kid down at learning stuff that isn’t good for him by wasting his time. – O’Leary for News
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Hat tip: Bioethics.com
Here are several examples of atheists themselves violating the establishment clause of the first amendment by openly proselytizing their own atheistic religion in the classroom:
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I suppose that as bad or worse than teaching kids to distrust the government.
Teaching kids to mistrust authority, not deny it outright, was the mantra of the ’60.s.
So I guess in so many ways creationists are the products of our hippy forbears!!
Don’t trust anybody, or origin subject, over 30! Man!
In reality its a mistrust of a few conclusions in a few subjects touching on origin issues.
Its not mistrusting the science behind how TIME magazine hires writers!
ITS TIME for Time to accept its TIME is over as a insightful commentary on anything.
Time magazine is delirious. As with any other authority, everything about science must be questioned. The worst thing one can do is trust science. To be skeptical about science is to love science. Trusting science is akin to superstition.
Nice one, Mapou!
-Q
I asked a question on the Politico site that spawned this article:
They apparently did not care for my comment. It has been removed.
I honestly do not think that it is a right thing to do. But again, I understand that we live in a democratic country where people are allowed to have their personal opinions. I just wonder how they explain certain things which I can only explain with a help of science. It does just seem quite weird to me. I hope that a practice of teaching kids to not trust science won’t spread too far. I do believe in researches and experiments (turn to services which does in-depth research to write an academic level college papers online), this is how things are discovered…
The issue with showing kids like this—separated from the way that its just mistaken is that it excludes them from full cooperation in the bigger world. It’s terribly tricky to be a piece of the worldwide discussion about the Big Bang achievements.
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