Many creationist believe that any teaching of science is an attack on their faith and a form of religion. The argument is not different than when the Catholic church suppressed heliocentricism.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/...nsas-schools-from-adopting-science-standards/
According to a statement on the Pacific Justice Institute’s website, the teaching of science in all of the state’s public schools could create “a hostile learning environment for those of faith.” The institute — which purports to defend “religious freedom, parental rights and other civil liberties” — is challenging the fact that the new science standards do not give equal weight to the Christian creation myth.
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Another group, the Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE, Inc.) filed suit on Sep. 26 demanding that the new curricula not be instituted. In a press release, CORE said that the science standards would “will have the effect of causing Kansas public schools to establish and endorse a non-theistic religious worldview,” which the group said is a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
But not all believers argue such things or are hostile to science.
http://www.bjconline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5754&Itemid=134
Is the science of evolution atheist? Surely not, right? Nothing about the theory of natural selection is incompatible with a belief in a higher power. Some in Kansas apparently believe otherwise, however, and have filed a lawsuit challenging the state's science curriculum for, it claims, promoting a non-theistic religious view.
The Associated Press has more:
It sounds like proponents would prefer teaching no science at all? Should we just throw up our hands and say, to every question, "we don't know?" Will that be the science education of the 21st Century if arguments like this one prevail?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/...nsas-schools-from-adopting-science-standards/
According to a statement on the Pacific Justice Institute’s website, the teaching of science in all of the state’s public schools could create “a hostile learning environment for those of faith.” The institute — which purports to defend “religious freedom, parental rights and other civil liberties” — is challenging the fact that the new science standards do not give equal weight to the Christian creation myth.
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Another group, the Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE, Inc.) filed suit on Sep. 26 demanding that the new curricula not be instituted. In a press release, CORE said that the science standards would “will have the effect of causing Kansas public schools to establish and endorse a non-theistic religious worldview,” which the group said is a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
But not all believers argue such things or are hostile to science.
http://www.bjconline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5754&Itemid=134
Is the science of evolution atheist? Surely not, right? Nothing about the theory of natural selection is incompatible with a belief in a higher power. Some in Kansas apparently believe otherwise, however, and have filed a lawsuit challenging the state's science curriculum for, it claims, promoting a non-theistic religious view.
The Associated Press has more:
So, let me get this straight. Every time the public school science curriculum properly refuses to teach creationism, it is guilty of teaching a religious world view? That makes no sense. Evolution is a well-established explanation in the scientific community. Teaching it in science class is not teaching a religious view in violation of church-state separation.
It sounds like proponents would prefer teaching no science at all? Should we just throw up our hands and say, to every question, "we don't know?" Will that be the science education of the 21st Century if arguments like this one prevail?
