>>> "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> 11/28/06 4:19 PM
>> writes:
Ted
Do you not think that all these capers about the teaching of
evolution from
Arkansas to Dover ( not to mention that stupid country over the pond
which
allows the teaching of creationism in state schools) makes it harder not
easier to give a broad questioning science education?
Design in its widest sense has a serious place in science lessons, but I
think the politics of ID has destroyed that.
It would be very instructive in biology to teach aspects of design from
Ray,
Buffon, Cuvier Paley and Buckland and how Darwin dealt with it. <SNIP>
Ted responds:
We agree on much of this, I think. The dialectic is precisely as you
describe it in the second and third paragraphs: history of science is
vital
to good science teaching, including the history (accurate history) of
science and religion w/design as part of that. But political factors
have
probably made this impossible. I am a former high school science
teacher,
and if I were still doing it I'd only be doing it if I could do it
right--which means that I'd defy the politics and proceed.
What, BTW, is "that stupid country over the pond which allows the
teaching
of creationism in state schools"? I know it can't be us, given clear
Supreme Court decisions about this....
t
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