Comments on: Teaching “the controversy”, again http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/11/09/teaching-the-controversy-again/ Challenging the Zeitgeist Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:20:34 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Earl Netwal http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/11/09/teaching-the-controversy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-14369 Earl Netwal Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:00:52 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=2063#comment-14369 It's incredible that Science education is so inadequate that even our teachers are ignorant. Of is it incredible that we allow such ignorant people to become teachers. It’s incredible that Science education is so inadequate that even our teachers are ignorant. Of is it incredible that we allow such ignorant people to become teachers.

]]> By: 1minion http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/11/09/teaching-the-controversy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-14240 1minion Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:16:17 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=2063#comment-14240 I linked to this article on my own little blog this morning. Thanks for offering up some more information from the Teachers TV angle. It's unfortunate that this ridiculous creation theory still makes inroads where sense and logic should prevail. I just can't fathom how a person can hang onto it as truth. I linked to this article on my own little blog this morning. Thanks for offering up some more information from the Teachers TV angle.

It’s unfortunate that this ridiculous creation theory still makes inroads where sense and logic should prevail. I just can’t fathom how a person can hang onto it as truth.

]]> By: Larro http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/11/09/teaching-the-controversy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-14238 Larro Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:03:05 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=2063#comment-14238 Excellent article! TW beat me to the punch. Excellent article!

TW beat me to the punch.

]]> By: Heather http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/11/09/teaching-the-controversy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-14237 Heather Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:44:10 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=2063#comment-14237 Yes. I should have also said that Boyle and Faraday actually did science, rather than just saying "God must have done everything" But there's only so much attention you can pay to this shit..... Yes.
I should have also said that Boyle and Faraday actually did science, rather than just saying “God must have done everything”
But there’s only so much attention you can pay to this shit…..

]]> By: » Teaching “the controversy”, again http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/11/09/teaching-the-controversy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-14236 » Teaching “the controversy”, again Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:34:42 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=2063#comment-14236 [...] the idea that unintelligent design (naturalism) can be falsified while at the same time intelligent design cannot is logically untenability [sic] and morally dubious. If a design did not come from an unintelligent source there is only … More [...] [...] the idea that unintelligent design (naturalism) can be falsified while at the same time intelligent design cannot is logically untenability [sic] and morally dubious. If a design did not come from an unintelligent source there is only … More [...]

]]> By: TW http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/2008/11/09/teaching-the-controversy-again/comment-page-1/#comment-14235 TW Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:27:16 +0000 http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog/?p=2063#comment-14235 I think you have been quite soft on Nullius in Verba. <blockquote>Stifling the debate as Adam Rutherford suggests is a recipe for tyranny and there is a great danger of insisting that atheism is the only paradigm in which to conduct science</blockquote> Over-wordy nonsense. Evolution and Atheism are not the same thing, some devout Christians have reconciled evolution with their faith. Not teaching science in the science class is not "stifling the debate" any more than not teaching the Finnish creation myths in RE is. It is worrying that an idea, unthinkable even in the church a generation ago, now has almost 30% penetration amongst teachers. Are we too complacent about the ID threat in the UK? I think you have been quite soft on Nullius in Verba.

Stifling the debate as Adam Rutherford suggests is a recipe for tyranny and there is a great danger of insisting that atheism is the only paradigm in which to conduct science

Over-wordy nonsense. Evolution and Atheism are not the same thing, some devout Christians have reconciled evolution with their faith. Not teaching science in the science class is not “stifling the debate” any more than not teaching the Finnish creation myths in RE is.

It is worrying that an idea, unthinkable even in the church a generation ago, now has almost 30% penetration amongst teachers. Are we too complacent about the ID threat in the UK?

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