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How to Weed Creationism Out of Schools

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http://m.nautil.us/blog/how-to-weed-crea...of-schools

EXCERPT: One of the latest victims of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian regime in Turkey isn’t a journalist, or dissident academic, but the concept of evolution. His government’s decision to erase Darwin’s idea—the bedrock of biology—from the high school curriculum will take effect in September (if a lawsuit against the move fails). Classes on evolution will, for now, still be taught at the university level. This is the apparent apotheosis of a recent trend to Islamize secular education in Turkey. [...]

[...] This is an outcome that fundamentalist Christians have wanted to bring about in the United States [...] How to fix this? They argue the U.S. needs its prospective biology teachers to take a course specifically on evolutionary theory [...] Requiring it [...] would [...] provide teachers “with more confidence to teach evolution forthrightly,” they write, “even in communities where public opinion is sympathetic to creationism”; and two, it would help weed out creationists who want to teach high school biology by either converting them or encouraging them to “pursue other careers.”

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I think it is also important to write better textbooks. Teachers are limited by the materials they are given to work with. And those who care about education and citizens having a good understanding of reality, need to unite and come up with a plan, such as write better textbooks and get involved with schools and school districts to promote better textbooks and address the issue with the media whenever possible. Possibly do programs for schools to enrich their science programs.

When it comes to dealing with religious folks, things might go a whole lot better if there were agreement about what science and logic has to do with good moral judgment. The science community has really shot itself in the foot by opposing all ideas dealing with morality, and this must be the result of ignorance of philosophy and the reasoning behind democracy, liberty, and justice. It is crazy, but honestly, the divide between some religious groups and science is just too great and needs to be bridged with better information.
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