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Big_Bird

Just reading the latest hoo-ha in the US regarding the creationism/evolution showdown in the schools, and wondering how many people get taught either.

Enemies of creationism may be hindering science teachers

Were you taught either of these at school? I recall being taught neither. I would have escaped any lesson on creationism, as I was exempted from Religious Instruction. But I was never taught about Evolution either.

I came across the concept of Evolution after a trip to the Natural History Museum when I was 6. My dad explained the basics to me as we looked at some of the exhibits. I first heard of God when I was 7, when 10 year old Fiona told me all about God and Jesus and how Jesus was God's baby and how God had made me and my mum and my dad and had helped to make our house and our car and everything int he world and all the babies in the world, and that was the closest to a lesson in Creationism I ever got - until I watched Genesis on the telly a few years ago, that is.

Are the US creationists winning the battle of the school curriculum? In Britain there's very little concern about all this stuff. Even the head of the English church doesn't think creationism should be taught in school: Archbishop: stop teaching creationism

Big_Bird · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:47 am Post subject:

Here's a video that might be of interest to some:

The creationism controversy in the classroom

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

Evolution only.

Big_Bird · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 4:10 am Post subject:

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

I was taught the Theory of Evolution in school, of course. That's because the other thing is a religious belief and it's not even held as literal truth by most denominations.

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

Big_Bird · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 5:00 am Post subject:

In that case, I wonder if the person who wrote the blurb bothered to watch the video either?

3 people have been taught about evolution. 2 not at all. I'd be interested to see which country they're from. I did my schooling in the UK. We had a fabulous biology teacher, but we never studied evolution. I always assumed that was something you'd study at university.

CentralCali · Joined: 17 May 2007

I attended public schools in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. My high school in Virginia did offer one class on the Bible, "The Bible as Literature." And, no, it did not involve any preaching about the Bible as truth. It examined it as literature.

Also, in said government schools, we did learn Evolution. Apparently, this must've been in the days before politically-driven religion being mandated in schools. Creationism and its undercover twin ID were never discussed.

RufusW · Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Location: Busan

Student Wins Suit After Teacher Says Creationism �Superstitious Nonsense�

Warning: Fox News :)

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=336583

From Britain so it was evolution for me in school.

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Evolution, in Canada. But there was a sticker on the inside jacket of the text book that said something like "evolution is disputed" etc etc. I think the sticker was removed after one year. Can't remember exactly. We began learning about evolution in the 9th grade I think.

mithridates · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 6:21 am Post subject:

I'm from Alberta, never knew that evolution was anything "controversial" until the internet appeared for the first time. Then again, the first thing I ever wanted to be was a paleontologist.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

I'm also from Alberta, and attended Catholic schools(which in that province are state-funded, and not much different from public schools.)

I must have been taught the Genesis story at some point, probably in an elementary school religion class. But in Grade 7 Social Studies, and then in Grade 11 Biology, we were taught the theory of evolution, unadulterated.

rollo · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: China

Evolution of course. But I was educated before nutcases fabricated creationism. I have a question Big Bird. Is sience actually taught in U.k schools? I was under the impression since Britain invents nothing and achieves nothing in science that except for a few oxford Dons it had been abandoned. Now I believe it is the U.S. that usually sweeps the science Nobels that has a mars rover, space program, mapped the human genome, invented airplane, internet, lightbulb, so forth that it would be Americans who would be asking questions of the British about their edicational policies. But I will say that you are one of the best at winding people up. I honestly dont think that creationism is taught anywhere. It justs gets media attention. I actually went and listened to a debate betwen a creationist and a scientist. The creationist actually started talking about a substance , that doesnt exist, entirely made up. Using some lack of gases in this imaginary substance to "prove" that the earth was only ten thousand years old. When challenged he began to rant about how Darwin became a Christian on his death bed. Another lie. Idiots get attention, the nanotechnology lab at Standford no one ever hears about. You are the Queen of the poo-poo stirrers, Big Bird.!

Big_Bird · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject:

rollo · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: China

Thank you for the invitation!!! It is kind of you that you think i would fit in. Picking on America's less intellectually gifted should be beneath the superior citizenry of the "Mother Country" , it is just too easy. Are there any believers in creationism in the U.k. or is it just an American idiocy? I will be visiting the U. k. in September. I hope I dont stand out too much, since I have a good set of teeth, a strong chin and a full head of hair. I am an admirer of Britain, it's institutions and it great thinkers such as Hawkings and Darwin.