Evolutionists Now Formulating Teaching Standards That States Should Adopt “In Whole, Without Alteration”
| May 12, 2012 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Evolutionists are now formulating scientifically archaic teaching standards they want the states to follow “in whole, without alteration.” Our evolution-drenched science education in the U.S. is pathetic, with science literacy scraping the bottom the barrel. And now evolutionists are prescribing more scientific lies mandating evolutionary dogma. For a century evolution has corrupted science and science education alike, teaching a bizarre, upside-down version of the facts and suppressing the true science. Evolutionists have literally filled textbooks withunabashed lies that have left students without a clue about the real biology involved. And now they have just raised the ante, mandating the same old lies for the states to adopt “in whole, without alteration.” Read more
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Who is John Galt?-> “Atlas Shrugged”- it’s a book about people that have no business making public policy, making public policy, and here we are.
I find it odd that they think that the science standards in silicon valley should be the same as the science standards in Pittsburgh, which should be the same as the science standards in Oklahoma. Just off the cuff, Oklahoma, a drilling state, should have more focus on earth sciences, Silicon Valley should have more focus on math and computer sciences, and Pittsburgh should have more focus on chemistry (for use in metal processing).
It is McDonald’s that has the “tastes the same everywhere burget”, and that taste isn’t good. Different regions are different and have different needs. Why is this so hard for everyone to see?
I think the science establishment needs to take responsibility for the state of science education NOW. If American science literacy is low, that is not the fault of a few creationists who have no control over the public school curricula. I don’t accept the endless “More evolutionary dogma will fix the problem” approach.
Folks:
Let us remember, first, the USA is embarking on an unprecedented level of tertiary education.
100 or even 50 years ago, you were not trying to push nigh on half your age cohorts through to Colleges. So, I suspect, part of the issue is the attempt to do mass tertiary education instead of the older skim the cream approach.
My own solution/suggestion [cf here also for a part time version, and here for the Dip. Ed/ M. Ed to retool people to teach and administer] as a curriculum architect has been: do second chance secondary studies and then move up to tertiary level by a bridge programme. (Other people — IMO — should be doing a modern apprenticeship in a skilled trade, with a qualification ladder that gives the equivalent of an Associate at some definite point.)
That way, you set up a viable bridge that solves problems before you hit the fast-paced, demanding college level. And, given the difference in economics [notice, your education debt crisis], I am inclined towards reaching up, through community colleges then transition to degree completion and onward to the Masters level which has now become the real threshold for professional praxis.
In addition, I note, there is a coming wave of Android Tablets that can work with wireless networks, digital libraries, ebooks etc to be a viable education platform that transforms cost and accessibility of learning resources. This wave is kicking in over the next year or two.
So, while there are genuine problems, I think part of this is the usual pressure group spin tactic: to get your change on the agenda, create a [perceived] crisis. Similarly, “never let a good crisis go to waste.”
Of course, a crisis is the best time to carry out a coup; especially if there is a panic and there is a cluster of factions that can be mobilised to push through the agenda. (A current example is how the Arab Spring is rapidly becoming an un-headlined IslamIST winter, in Egypt and elsewhere.)
So, let us observe: there is an education debt-crisis, and there is a broader economic malaise (in significant part triggered by foolish ideologically motivated interventions in the market place leading to bubbles and collapses).
I do not doubt that there are rafts of ideologues out there who perceive an opportunity to push through their agendas.
CH has headlined one of them, a push to swallow whole an alleged national high school curriculum reform, one that is chock full of evolutionary materialist dogma pushed in the name of sound science. As we can clip from his onward linked personal blog post:
Of course, the gaps, contradictory evidence, inherent limitations and a priori materialist ideology dressed up in the holy lab coat are not identified as topics for discussion. No, that is “creationism,” a loaded code word.
Materialist indoctrination, not education.
And that is expected to prepare our civilisation’s youth for higher education and the challenging global jobs market?
All, duly rubber-stamped by a bi-partisan group of state governors [say the magic word: “consensus”] and a sprinkling of some captains of industry.
Any properly trained Alinsky Rules for Radicals method “Community Organizer” would be drooling at the prospect.
But, then, that should be no surprise, in 2000 the US National Science Teachers Association [NSTA] Board went on record on their agenda:
So, when we see a demand for “standards” for science education that are to be taken:
. . . we have a right to be highly suspicious.
What can we do?
We are dealing with ideologues in full agenda-push mode in the face of crises that are the now traditional vehicle for radical change.
Such can be exposed and stopped, if there is a balance of forces adequate for the task; but, we should know that if professional ideologues sense that the time and trends are right for their push, they think they have good prospects for success.
If their momentum cannot be broken, then it is time to secede.
There is absolutely no reason why in the USA an alternative system of education from K to MS, cannot be created, built on what is already in place. Especially where there is now a broadband digital infrastructure to back it up.
But for that to work, people in a critical mass have to see that we are dealing with ideological empire building and coups that are driven by ruthless agendas, not by sound considerations.
So, the first thing is that there needs to be a broad, community based programme of education in origins science from a design theory perspective, independent of the materialist ideologue-dominated systems. (Try this for a first, rough draft.)
Such a programme should target two main groups: (i) educators for the new approach, (ii) students needing a balance in their scienc3e education that will counterweight the indoctrination they are going to get anyway. In addition, it should target the sort of community leadership that will be the core of the critical mass to get an alternative going.
So, if the ideologues insist on being unreasonable and have the power to capture the schools as temples of materialism, let them discover that the temples are increasingly empty.
And if they try to impose their agenda on that which is independent of their control, based on slander campaigns, that shows them up as ruthless nihilistic tyrants, to be stoutly exposed and resisted.
Enough is enough.
And, we have long since passed that point already.
GEM of TKI
F/N: My suggestion for an alternative (with illustrations).
It is funny to me that the way to persuade kids evolution is true is so fixed on the fossil record.
The fossil record only makes a evolutionary case if the geology is accepted.
If its not the evolution doesn’t exist. ID folks need to know this too.
If the evolution doesn’t exist because of the geology being wrong then LOGICALLY the evidence from fossils is not biological evidence.
Comparing fossils and conclusions thereof is not from biological investigation but from geological presumption.
Fossils are just snapshots of a moment.
They tell no more then the picture.
They don’t tell a movie.
A movie is being presumed but the fossils don’t tell there has been a movie.
They just show variety like in the Amazon.
You can’t do biology on rocks.
F/R: I have responded to several select objecting comments from CH’s personal blog thread here. KF