The clever ploy was to downplay Evolution and not insist on its teaching nor that on the age of the earth. Teachers under pressure to complete the syllabus could simply leave them out and thus another generation would not know the scientific arguments for the vast age of the earth and make them easy prey for YEC as if people cannot grasp the arguments they will swallow the pseudoscience of Creationism. Further it is one thing to criticise evolution but it is another to use faulty critiques such as Gish or Jon wells which students would not be able to see through.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: Allen Roy
To: Shuan Rose ; Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM
Cc: Asa
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Creationism in the UK (Utley v Dawkins)
This is one of the falsehoods that was spread by many, including the media. There never was an attempt to ban evolution in Kansas. Few people have ever looked for themselves at the actual wording of the state school board action. To be sure, Evolution was downplayed and concepts critical of evolution were to be allowed. But the wholesale banning of Evolution from the schools is pure fabrication.
Allen
----- Original Message -----
From: Shuan Rose
To: Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM
Cc: Asa
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: Creationism in the UK (Utley v Dawkins)
I I was thinking of Kansas , which tried but did not succceed in banning evolution. They merely made the teaching of it optional.Local school boards can decide whether to teach evolution, or the big bang . Read all about this at
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/03/08/creationism.vs.evolution/#r
-----Original Message-----
From: Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM [mailto:Norm.Woodward@robins.af.mil]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 1:32 PM
To: Shuan Rose; Asa
Subject: RE: Creationism in the UK (Utley v Dawkins)
(author unknown)
Mr. Colluphid ( a Secular Web moderator from England) is dismayed by the thought that there could possibly be in cool Britannia a secondary school that is deficent in the teaching of evolution. He should try living in the good ol' USA where one state has outright banned the teaching of evolution in high school and several states are considering such a ban
Does anyone know which state the writer is referring to? I think there is that “teaching/indoctrinating” confusion is occurring again.
BTW, why is it that us Fundies are always taking the heat about YEC?
Doesn’t the Jewish calendar indicate that we are only 5762 years from t=0?
Norm Woodward
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