Wednesday, February 08, 2006

 

ID: Theory and Practice

At the Discovery Institute, they say what they'd do:

We should encourage schools to teach better science and to teach more about evolution, [emphasis added, RSR] including the gaps and controversies surrounding evolution. We should not be afraid to teach children what we know and what we have not yet discovered in science, and we should certainly not deny our children the truth about controversies surrounding science. By teaching the controversy, we remain true to science and yet sensitive to the ideas and interests of parents and children.

The Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which supports challenges to Darwinian evolutionary theory, praised the Kansas effort. “Students will learn more about evolution, not less as some Darwinists have falsely claimed,” institute spokesman Casey Luskin said in a written statement. [emphasis added, RSR]

So, when ID proponents, like Caroline Crocker, are in charge of the classroom do they do what they say? Do they really teach more about evolution?

Before the class, Crocker had told me that she was going to teach "the strengths and weaknesses of evolution." Afterward, I asked her whether she was going to discuss the evidence for evolution in another class. She said no.

"There really is not a lot of evidence for evolution," Crocker said.


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