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в кучку про креационизм как обывательское умонастроение

просто попалась давняя статейка
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Насколько мне известно, еше в 70х половина взрослого населения южных
штатов США всерьез верила в то, что естественная история верно и
буквально
точно(по срокам) описана в Библии. Креационистские настроения там всегда
были сильны .

Канзаский боард оф эдьюкейшн видимо в своем решении
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Evolution is outsmarted by Creationism
TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas Board of Education rejected evolution as a
scientific principle on Wednesday, dealing a victory to religious
conservatives
who are increasingly challenging science education in U.S. schools.
The 10-member board, ignoring pleas by educators and most scientists,
voted
six
to four to embrace new standards for science curricula that eliminate
evolution
as an underlying principle of biology and other sciences.
"It's a step forward. We're going to improve rather than detract from
science
education in Kansas," said Scott Hill, a farmer and board member who
helped
write the new standards.
"There's a liberal agenda to build up or glorify evolution in our
schools,"
Hill said,
adding that evolution had been pushed on students as a "dogmatic fact."
Individual schools can continue to teach evolution in science classes
from
elementary through high school, but knowledge of evolution will not be
required
and will not be needed to pass state-sanctioned tests.
School board members opposed to removing evolution from the curriculum
recoiled at the change.
"In removing an important concept like evolution from life sciences and
biology,
(students) are going to go essentially crippled. It's like removing a
leg and
asking
you to run a 100-yard dash," board member William Wagnon said.
Others predicted students would fail college entrance exams and be
ill-prepared
for college science classes.
"Our children will not be prepared," member Val DeFever said. "It's sad
that
people are attacking education."
The guidelines eliminate evolution as a way to describe the emergence of
new
species - for instance the evolution of primates into homo sapiens -
while
leaving intact references to "microevolution," or changes that occur
within a
single species.
The theory of evolution was developed by 19th-century British scientist
Charles
Darwin. His discoveries were famously argued in the 1925 "Scopes Monkey
Trial,"
in which the state of Tennessee put teacher John Thomas Scopes on trial
for
knowingly infringing a law banning the teaching of evolution.
Defended by prominent trial attorney Clarence Darrow, Scopes was
convicted
and fined the minimum $100 but the verdict was reversed on a
technicality by
the state Supreme Court.
Prior to Wednesday's vote, the presidents of Kansas' six public
universities
wrote
a letter saying the new standards "will set Kansas back a century and
give
hard-to-find science teachers no choice but to pursue other career
fields or
assignments outside of Kansas.
"The argument that teaching evolution will destroy a student's faith in
God is
no
more true today than it was during the Scopes trial in 1925," the letter
said.
Banning evolution from the classroom gave conservative forces a victory
after
previous attempts to eliminate evolution in states including Alabama,
Arizona,
Georgia and Nebraska.
Religious groups have argued that evolution cannot be proven, and some
feel
that evolution is not in accordance with Biblical teachings regarding
the
origins of
life.
"It's deception," said Tom Willis, director of the Creation Science
Association for
Mid-America, which helped write the new standards. "You can't go into
the
laboratory or the field and make the first fish. When you tell students
that
science has determined (evolution to be true), you're deceiving them."
A 27-member state science committee spent a year writing new standards
that
were based on national education standards and included evolution. But
this
spring, a school board member introduced a competing proposal to remove
evolution theories from classrooms. The board deadlocked over the matter
in
May, and the issue has since prompted angry debate.
Prior attempts by religious groups to include "creation science," or
Creationism, in
school curricula included a failed attempt in Arkansas to require that
it be
taught
alongside evolution.
In 1982, an Arkansas federal judge overturned the law, ruling it
violated the
constitutional clause barring the establishment of religion by the
state. He
said
that creation science was not a valid science, had no secular
educational
purpose, but served only to promote religion. A similar law in Louisiana
was
struck down later the same year.

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