School officials have revised the science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism, prompting an outcry from more than 300 educators who urged that the decision be reversed.
Members of Grantsburg's school board believed that a state law governing the teaching of evolution was too restrictive. The science curriculum "should not be totally inclusive of just one scientific theory," said Joni Burgin, superintendent of the district of 1,000 students in northwest Wisconsin.
We should emphansize this is one school district. Is there a problem when teaching evolution to also include creationism?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/06/ev...s.ap/index.html
Amusingly, National Geographic this month, if you see it on your newstand, has a cover page that asks: "Is Darwin Wrong?" and inside "A resounding no" with the article laying out that evolution is a fact and not a theory.
Does that make creationism rather irrelevent and a waste of time? Not according to many Americans.
According to a Gallup poll drawn from more than a thousand telephone interviews conducted in February 2001, no less than 45 percent of responding U.S. adults agreed that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so." Evolution, by their lights, played no role in shaping us.
Gallup interviewers posed exactly the same choices in 1982, 1993, 1997, and 1999. The creationist conviction—that God alone, and not evolution, produced humans—has never drawn less than 44 percent. In other words, nearly half the American populace prefers to believe that Charles Darwin was wrong where it mattered most.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/04...ure1/index.html
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