Mark Mathis: Will Florida decision on evolution curriculum set national precedent?
- From: Jason Spaceman <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:13:29 -0400
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Mark Mathis, guest columnist
Saturday, April 26, 2008
The Florida Board of Education recently voted to revamp its standards
for teaching science in public schools. Educators are now required to
teach evolution as ?the fundamental concept underlying all biology ...
supported by multiple forms of scientific evidence.? While supporters
cited the need to improve failing science programs in the state, the
decision is likely to have the opposite effect.
In a last-minute compromise, the board voted 4-3, requiring educators
to teach the ?scientific theory of evolution,? but balked at an
?academic freedom? proposal which would allow teachers ?to engage
students in a critical analysis of that evidence.? In essence,
teachers are now required to spend more time teaching only one of two
possible theories about the origination and development of life, while
forbidding this theory from being properly scrutinized, let alone
allowing it to face competition from the competing hypothesis of
Intelligent Design.
Hello? Has a majority of the Florida Board of Education ever heard of
something called the scientific method? You know, where theories must
be thoroughly examined, warts and all?
You might be surprised to hear this, but the brand of evolution taught
in schools today (Neo-Darwinism, the idea that all of life is the
result of random mutation and natural selection with no need for a
designer or God) is no closer to being established as a fact than it
was when Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859. In
fact, new technologies are casting more doubt on Darwin?s theory.
It might also surprise you that in the Board of Education?s mandate to
use the word ?evolution? it did not actually define the word. Seems
odd, doesn?t it? Actually, it?s not. Darwinists avoid specifically
defining evolution because doing so would reveal that they are
actually teaching an atheistic form of the theory. This point cannot
be overstated. Florida is mandating the teaching of a state-sponsored,
taxpayer-funded theory that is directly linked to atheistic naturalism
without allowing the weaknesses of the theory to be discussed.
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J. Spaceman
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