Last week, the UK updated their requirements for all state-funded schools and academies (click Church of England and Catholic single academy model supplemental agreement) to clearly prohibit the teaching of creationism as science. Its not exactly a groundbreaking change, since future schools and acadamies were already barred from teaching creationism, but the new language puts the requirements on existing schools and acadamies as well. For those who are unfamiliar with the UK system, this language refers to what in the US are called private schools, such as those run by religious institutions. This restriction stands in stark contrast to the United States, where creationism is not so much an embarassment to reasonable society as it is a valid life choice to be taught to children as a valid alternative hypothesis to evolution (at best) or an outright fact (at worst). Many private schools in the US accept taxpayer money while teaching students that the Loch Ness Monster is real and proof of non-avian dinosaurs living today, or that fossils were created by a global flood, as with this spectacular example of a 4th grade science quiz from a private school in South Carolina:
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:13:12 +0000
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