Evolving arguments

June 5th, 2008 11:32 am · 2 comments

Ah, those tricky fundies. Always up to something:

Opponents of teaching evolution, in a natural selection of sorts, have gradually shed those strategies that have not survived the courts. Over the last decade, creationism has given rise to “creation science,” which became “intelligent design,” which in 2005 was banned from the public school curriculum in Pennsylvania by a federal judge.

Now a battle looms in Texas over science textbooks that teach evolution, and the wrestle for control seizes on three words. None of them are “creationism” or “intelligent design” or even “creator.”

The words are “strengths and weaknesses.”

Starting this summer, the state education board will determine the curriculum for the next decade and decide whether the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution should be taught. The benign-sounding phrase, some argue, is a reasonable effort at balance. But critics say it is a new strategy taking shape across the nation to undermine the teaching of evolution, a way for students to hear religious objections under the heading of scientific discourse.

I like how what is obviously a faith-based movement has a political strategy. What was Jesus’s political strategy?

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  2 comments  Tags: Religious conservatism

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dragonrider
6/5/08
11:40 AM
QUOTE(Lancaster Online @ Jun 5 2008, 11:35 AM) [snapback]397599[/snapback]


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I can't remember Jesus taking a stand on evolution. But see evolution goes against the inerrantcy of the Bible and Strictly Literal interpretation of the Bible. You can't have both which really gets conservative evangelicals panties in a bunch.
funkman
6/5/08
12:45 PM
Is it ironic that through natural selection, the bad strategies "died", and each newer strategy is more scientific-y than the last? tongue.gif
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