CREATIONISM
One third of British teachers recently polled believe that creationism ought to be taught on an equal basis to natural selection. This poll went unreported; I only caught this information on Teachers TV, a surprisingly interesting cable channel.
Now I suspect that if one third of British teachers believe that a religious fundamentalist doctrine, not just unscientific but an anti science position, equivalent to the advocacy of astrology as part of the science curriculum, ought to be taught to our children this should be a cause for some concern.
Now there are two possibilities for this state of affairs. Number one is that the overwhelming power of the Creationist, the intellectual rigour of the so called Intelligent Design position has simply converted one third of the teaching profession, or secondly faced by schoolrooms filled with young minds indoctrinated by religious doctrine, particularly from within the Christian fundamentalist and Islamic communities , they have simply, as they say, ‘bottled it.’ If the latter is true what does it tell us about the current state of British Education?
Now I suspect that if one third of British teachers believe that a religious fundamentalist doctrine, not just unscientific but an anti science position, equivalent to the advocacy of astrology as part of the science curriculum, ought to be taught to our children this should be a cause for some concern.
Now there are two possibilities for this state of affairs. Number one is that the overwhelming power of the Creationist, the intellectual rigour of the so called Intelligent Design position has simply converted one third of the teaching profession, or secondly faced by schoolrooms filled with young minds indoctrinated by religious doctrine, particularly from within the Christian fundamentalist and Islamic communities , they have simply, as they say, ‘bottled it.’ If the latter is true what does it tell us about the current state of British Education?
