No more will students in Ohio science classes be taught to think critically or use the scientific method to examine evidence for and against scientific theories. instead, they are to be presented only evidence in support of scientific theories, but not any evidence that may call such theories into doubt.
Why the change from good science education to indoctrination? because some fear that teaching kids to think might lead them to draw conclusions that contradict scientific orthodoxy.
The Ohio school board voted Tuesday to eliminate a passage in the state’s science standards that critics said opened the door to the teaching of intelligent design.The Ohio Board of Education decided 11-4 to delete material encouraging students to seek evidence for and against evolution.
The 2002 science standards said students should be able to “describe how scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.” The standards included a disclaimer that they do not require the teaching of intelligent design.
So the message of the real close-minded fundamentalists to Ohio students is clear -- don't think; accept Darwinist dogma on faith.
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That "critically analyze" language in the Ohio standards was just part of a general stealth effor
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BTLewis said:
Hmm... what's that "of evolutionary theory" doing in there? I mean, why single that out, instead
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John said:
I have a question about your definition of "Darwinist dogma."
Darwin said nothing about g
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|| Posted by radar, February 26, 2006 07:38 PM ||I have a question about your definition of "Darwinist dogma."
Darwin said nothing about genetic drift (i.e., no selection involved), yet every non-ID believer and non-creationist I know accepts the mountains of evidence for its existence.
If we only adhere to Darwinist dogma, how is it that we accept that loads of evolution occurs by mechanisms that didn't occur to Darwin?
|| Posted by John, February 27, 2006 06:37 PM ||Hmm... what's that "of evolutionary theory" doing in there? I mean, why single that out, instead of just saying "of everything the students are taught in science classes"? Or are the students NOT supposed to analyze critically everything they are taught, with the big exception of evolutionary theory?
What's the point of that?
Until that's explained, I suggest y'all tone down the "kids aren't supposed to think critically in school" kind of comments, an example of which is presented above: "instead, they are [...] presented only evidence in support of scientific theories, but not any evidence that may call such theories into doubt."
I suppose that should read: "they are [...] presented only evidence in support of all scientific theories except for the theory of evolution, but not any evidence that may call such theories (except for the theory of evolution) into doubt."
|| Posted by BTLewis, February 28, 2006 06:33 AM ||That "critically analyze" language in the Ohio standards was just part of a general stealth effort by certain Board of Ed members to insert propaganda for creationist/anti-evolution content. The otherwise-hard-to-explain singling out of evolution that commenters above point out is just the beginning.
The standards came attached to a "model lesson plan," offered as an optional template for Ohio science teachers, that was loaded with exactly the sort of Intelligent Design and even old-fashioned Creationist content that has been debunked a million times *and* thrown out as unconstitutional in case after case.
The Board's advisory committee of scientists told the Board members behind the model lesson plan that it was full of misleading and untrue material criticizing evolutionary theory, even using such words as "lies." This fact was kept from other Board members when the "critical analysis" standard and lesson plan were previously voted on and passed; these members' discovery of how they'd been misled helped lead to the change in this latest vote. One of the members who led the charge against the "critical analysis" material identifies herself as a creationist, but she recognized the standards as bad ones and recognized that she'd been duped.
This is a typical tactic of anti-evolutionists: change the label, keep the content and protest and deny mightily when people don't buy it. That's the tactic behind the facelift for Creationism that produced Intelligent Design, and behind the facelift that has now replaced ID with "critical analysis" or "teach the controversy."
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