[asa] Education, Medicine, and Evolution

To say that Rich's point is a "straw man" is an understatement.
But there is something even worse at work.

There are certain ones who think every doctor ought to be an evolutionist or lose his job.
And the same think that one who, even though he/she may have an appropriate level of
understanding of genetics and related biology, must be an evolutionist in order to teach
HS biology. Or they should be fired. And even that they should be hunted down and fired.
These are radicals.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/10/16/124930/37/Front_Page/Campus_Crusade_For_Accuracy_California_Colleges_Resist_Fundamentalist_Demands
Would you be upset if you sent your son to a summer camp on geology only to learn that it was taught by a creationist? There are some jobs some people just aren't suited to do - not because they have strong beliefs but because those beliefs don't jibe with well established facts.
-- Rob Boston is with Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/02/why_race_gender_and_religion_a.php#comment-740165
And Rob Boston would deny certain jobs to those who accept special creation.So would I. So what? I would not allow a creationist to teach evolutionary biology any more than I would allow a geocentrist to teach astronomy.

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/05/1_in_8_teaching_creationism_in.php
"Here's the problem: we only find out who they are if a student or parent comes forward and contacts us. So I'm proposing that we get more aggressive and start rooting them out one by one."

-- Ed Brayton may be known in these circles.

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Received on Fri May 30 16:06:16 2008