[troutman]

I think someone asked if we should worry about ID being taught in Alberta:

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnis...286576-sun.php


In Alberta, teaching kids creationist fairy tales as an alternative to real biological science is even paid for with our tax dollars. Last summer, the province quietly began shipping more of our dough to private and religious schools by upping their per student grant from 60% to 70% of the total instructional cost.

Our tax dollars are underwriting ignorance in religious schools peddling myth as science throughout the province, some of which have attached themselves to public boards in a bid to receive full funding.

The principal of Airdrie's Koinonia Christian school is proud creationism and its more sophisticated offspring, intelligent design, is part of his school's science instruction, even though Alberta Education says it forbids creationism being taught as science.

"When I was in school in the 1970s, creationism was not considered science, it wasn't even considered a scientific theory," says Driedger.

It still isn't, but Driedger clearly thinks education has come a long way -- and the future is bright.

"Intelligent design is certainly taking off due to the lack of evidence in evolutionary science," he says.

The province states only schools meeting "increased accountability measures" -- certain standards, in other words, are eligible for the 70% funding level.

Under the banner of "flexibility" and "choice," those standards don't exclude pseudo science being taught at taxpayers' expense.