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Teaching Creationism as Scientifically Valid Now Banned in All UK Public Schools

Author:     JC SEVCIK
Source:     UPI
Publication Date:     June 18, 2014 at 7:37 PM
 Link: Teaching Creationism as Scientifically Valid Now Banned in All UK Public Schools
Stephan:   In the Red value states we are witnessing the castration of public education. The anti-science forces are in full throat and the state legislators due their bidding. This is usually seen by social progressives in a negative light, and I would agree. But there is a deeper lesson: the ascendency of the Theocratic Right, and the imposition of its theology in schools is an example of citizen power. If Social Progressives, would bring the same fervor to their political involvement we would have a very different world. Why isn't this happening seems to me a very urgent question. Meanwhile in the U.K. what should have happened here, actually happened. Here is the prediction: the children of Red states are already notably deficient in every school subject, compared to U.K. students, and a host of other countries' students as well. That difference is going to increase as the Red value children fall further and further behind. The Red states, by almost any measure one cares to choose, are actually creating second world societies. From an historical perspective it is an extraordinary thing to witness.

LONDON — The United Kingdom has banned the teaching of creationism as scientifically valid in all schools receiving public funding.

The government released a new set of funding agreements last week including clauses which specifically prohibit pseudoscience.

“The parties acknowledge that clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the Funding Agreement [which preclude the teaching of pseudoscience and require the teaching of evolution] apply to all academies. They explicitly require that pupils are taught about the theory of evolution, and prevent academy trusts from teaching ‘creationism’ as scientific fact,” one clause reads.

The funding agreement defines creationism as “any doctrine or theory which holds that natural biological processes cannot account for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth and therefore rejects the scientific theory of evolution,” and goes on to note that this idea is rejected not only by the scientific community but most mainstream churches as well.

“It does not accord with the scientific consensus or the very large body of established scientific evidence; nor does it accurately and consistently employ the scientific method, and as such it should not be presented to pupils at the Academy as a scientific theory,” the agreement states.

The funding agreement notes that the discussion of beliefs […]

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