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Monday, May 09, 2005
If she weighs the same as a duck
Evolution gets a lengthy article in the Christian Science Monitor (via CBS). Same old stuff, really, but this passage grabbed me:
"What you have is the Scopes trial turned on its head because you have school boards saying you can't say anything critical about Darwin," says Discovery Institute president Bruce Chapman on the "Icons of Evolution" DVD.
If you blame a wart on a witch, you're a nut. That's as it should be. If you attack evolution with these 10 questions, you're just as much of a nut. All scientific theories remain open to credible challenge, but not all challenges are credible.
But to many teachers, "teaching the controversy" means letting ideologues manufacture controversy where there is none. And that, they say, could set a disastrous precedent in education.
"In some ways I think civilization is at stake because it's about how we view our world," Nimz says. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692, for example, were possible, she says, because evidence wasn't necessary to guide a course of action.
