The Register is reporting that the UK government has ruled that intelligent design is not acceptable in science classes. [via Slashdot]
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Intelligent Religion is Religion. This isn't news. The news is: UK Government has said so, shoving witless non-science like Intelligent Design and Creationism back into the holes they came from.
"The Government is aware that a number of concerns have been raised in the media and elsewhere as to…
Given the latest efforts in Texas and Florida (and elsewhere) to push religious views into the science classroom, I thought it might be helpful to remind everyone of this blood curdling story.
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The Brits have decided that Intelligent Design creationism, is well, creationism. It will not be allowed in science classes in the UK.
The government has announced that it will publish guidance for schools on how creationism and intelligent design relate to science teaching, and has reiterated…
The British are unique in their irrationality. The same people who can be so sensible about things like evolution can still go gaga over reported ghost sightings.
Of course we are, we're British!
"In their rationality, all nations are alike. In their irrationality, all nations are unique." Comment.
It's simple really; we know the difference between science and religion plus we love a mystery.
It's not just the UK that is not seduced by the hokum of ID or creationism; the Council of Europe has a strong document saying that creationism is dangerous in education:
http://assembly.coe.int/main.asp?Link=/documents/workingdocs/doc07/edoc…
Although the Christian creationism movement looks strong in the US (and possibly Australia too), I think Americans often don't understand how little impact it has had in post-Reformation Europe; people just don't buy it and don't buy literalist worship of the Bible.
The Council of Europe document recognises the dangers inherent in letting Islamic creationism take root too. In the UK, Islamic "faith schools" are a worrying trend in promoting irrationality. We need to be vigilant, but we don't need to be paranoid!
I would imagine that in Europe Islamic creationism, as part of a trend towards the isolation and Islamistization of European Muslims must be a prime concern, and that by giving Creationism as a general claim the boot from schools, they tidily get rid of a few local loons, as well as justifying putting a stop to a much more troubling trend.
But don't for a moment forget that there is a small but often vocal English ultraconservative community which isn't all that different from the sort to be found in the US. They have tacit allies among the more mainstream British conservatives, who now seem on a quest to undermine British public education. The Telegraph's editorial section usually has one of these types at least once a week.