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27 Nov 2006 02:55:57 AM |
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Dawkins takes fight against religion into the classroom |
Dawkins takes fight against religion into the classroom
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2018755.ece
By Sarah Cassidy
Published: 27 November 2006
Richard Dawkins, the Oxford geneticist, best-selling author and
campaigning atheist, is to take his battle against God into Britain's
schools after setting up a foundation to counter the religious
indoctrination of young people.
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason will subsidise
books, pamphlets and DVDs for teachers to fight the "educational
scandal" that has seen the growth in popularity of "pseudo science" and
"irrational" ideas.
Revealed: rise of creationism in UK schools
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1957858,00.html
PR packs spread controversial theory
James Randerson, science correspondent
Monday November 27, 2006
The Guardian
Dozens of schools are using creationist teaching materials condemned by
the government as "not appropriate to support the science curriculum",
the Guardian has learned.
The packs promote the creationist alternative to Darwinian evolution
called intelligent design and the group behind them said 59 schools are
using the information as "a useful classroom resource".
Creationism
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/d1f8c35b1798931f
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=creationism+OR+creationist+OR+creationists&btnG=Search+Blogs
Evolution
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/20bfffecb478dd49
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=Evolution+OR+evolutionary+OR+evolutionist+OR+evolutionists+OR+evolutionism&btnG=Search+Blogs
Intelligent design
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/9bffa0938bd2f64f
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=+%22Intelligent+design%22&btnG=Search+Blogs
Richard Dawkins
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/06eabadab5e94250
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=%22Richard+Dawkins%22&btnG=Search+Blogs
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| User: "maff" |
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28 Nov 2006 04:36:16 AM |
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maff wrote:
Dawkins takes fight against religion into the classroom
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2018755.ece
By Sarah Cassidy
Published: 27 November 2006
Richard Dawkins, the Oxford geneticist, best-selling author and
campaigning atheist, is to take his battle against God into Britain's
schools after setting up a foundation to counter the religious
indoctrination of young people.
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason will subsidise
books, pamphlets and DVDs for teachers to fight the "educational
scandal" that has seen the growth in popularity of "pseudo science" and
"irrational" ideas.
Revealed: rise of creationism in UK schools
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1957858,00.html
PR packs spread controversial theory
James Randerson, science correspondent
Monday November 27, 2006
The Guardian
Dozens of schools are using creationist teaching materials condemned by
the government as "not appropriate to support the science curriculum",
the Guardian has learned.
The packs promote the creationist alternative to Darwinian evolution
called intelligent design and the group behind them said 59 schools are
using the information as "a useful classroom resource".
Creationism
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/d1f8c35b1798931f
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=creationism+OR+creationist+OR+creationists&btnG=Search+Blogs
Evolution
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/20bfffecb478dd49
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=Evolution+OR+evolutionary+OR+evolutionist+OR+evolutionists+OR+evolutionism&btnG=Search+Blogs
Intelligent design
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/9bffa0938bd2f64f
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=+%22Intelligent+design%22&btnG=Search+Blogs
Richard Dawkins
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/06eabadab5e94250
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=%22Richard+Dawkins%22&btnG=Search+Blogs
A case for holistic science teaching
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1958445,00.html
Tuesday November 28, 2006
The Guardian
So the MP Phil Willis finds it both horrifying and worrying that packs
on creation and intelligent design are being used in schools (Revealed:
rise of creationism in UK schools, November 27). If we leave aside the
debate itself, which few are able to assess on scientific grounds
alone, what we are seeing is polemic fuelled by anti-religious views.
What exactly is so horrifying that Mr Willis and others mount such a
vehement campaign, and the Guardian such an alarmist headline? It seems
to be quite out of proportion to the issue debated. The treatment of
two theories in a small number of schools will not, in itself, damage
scientific education, nor will it produce future citizens careless of
their environment. Science is more robust than that. Suppressing it
could lead to closed minds. The real debate is the desire to attack any
influence of religious thinkers on discussion of matters of morality.
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