08.27.08
Alternet on Louisiana law
The Christian Right’s Got a New Stealth Tactic to Smuggle Creationism into Science Class
By Sandhya Bathija, Church & State Magazine. Posted August 27, 2008.
A new law in Louisiana allows teachers to bring in “supplemental textbooks” about evolution, the origins of life and global warming to science class.
It is not clear how this new Louisiana law will play out, but in principle it does not allow creationism in class. So what is the objection?
In a way this situation has been brought on biologists by their own obstinate rigidity, and determination to provoke the neutrality enjoined in the constitution with their own stealth ‘ideology’ of natural selection as the driver of evolution. As long as they are dogmatic here they are going to get the opposition of religious groups, because these groups, whatever their other confusions, know what Darwinists can’t grasp, that Darwinian theory is not good science.
That simple, yet all the scientists from here to the moon can’t seem to grasp the point.
The law allows criticism of Darwin’s theory, or any other theory. So why don’t scientists seize the initiative and honestly teach a critical viewpoint, toward ID, and toward Darwinism.
They are unable to do this because they have a huge investment in their propaganda campaign.
The reason is the bad education in biological evolution, and the uncritical promotion of Darwinism in the name of scientism.
Compared to Kansas years ago, or Dover, this approach shows the opponents are learning. Their strategy is close to what I suggested eight years ago, save only that fundamentalists will no doubt be incapable of restraining themselves, provoking the abuse of this potentially fair new formulation.
Potentially…