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Oy! Intelligent Design Taught Alongside Evolution in Modesto
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Oct 01, 2010 07:43pm |
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| Category | General |
| News Date | Friday, October 1, 2010 06:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It’s the debate that never ends – thanks to an aggressive minority that insists religious beliefs belong in the science classroom.
California public school teacher Mark Ferrante belongs in that group. According to the Modesto Bee, Ferrante recently announced that he planned to teach the latest variant of creationism, “intelligent design” (ID), alongside evolution at Modesto’s Roosevelt Junior High, sparking quite the community discussion.
The newspaper reported that since Ferrante’s announcement, some of the school’s trustees and other science teachers have admitted their belief that ID should be included in science courses.
“The current curriculum states that the evolution of man, Darwinism, must be taught as a theory,” trustee Nancy Cline said in an e-mail to the Bee. “I feel we do our students a disservice by not helping them become critical thinkers when we forbid the teaching of competing scientific theories, such as intelligent design.”
Cline couldn’t be more wrong. ID is not a “competing scientific theory” at all. |
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