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| quote: | Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0
Kinda correlated to this story, a sad news from Serbia...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3635794.stm
That's what happens when you give a minor right party member to be a minister of education. Hopefully, the public protest will force the government to pull back on that decision. What fascinates me about the story, though, is that Serbia is a pretty atheistic country... |
The scary thing is this same sort of arm twisting is occurring in the US.
| quote: | | Gallup poll shows U.S. still split over evolution. The results of the most recent survey reveal a nation still torn over the issue of human evolution. A majority (57 percent) of Americans choose "creationism" over "evolution" when asked which term best describes human origins... In the 20 years that Gallup has run the same survey, public opinion has changed little. |
| quote: | Under the Kansas order, local school districts will decide for themselves what is -- or isn't -- taught about evolution and the big-bang theory.
But critics of the new standards worry that some schools won't include those subjects because they no longer will be covered on standardized tests given to Kansas students. A U.S. dilemma While the Kansas controversy has drawn most recent attention, the creationist position seems to have wide support nationwide.
A CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll found that 68 percent of those surveyed favored teaching creationism along with evolution in public schools; 40 percent favored dropping evolution altogether and teaching children only the biblical version of creation.
The findings, though, are not necessarily a trend. Developments from around the United States following the Kansas decision in August show varying approaches to creationist-evolutionist controversy and how it should be addressed in classrooms:
In August, the Kansas Board of Education voted to drop evolutionary theories from the state's science standards
• The Arizona legislature is considering a measure that would require teachers to present scientific evidence that both supports and discredits the theory of evolution.
• Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson ruled last month that a state committee had no authority to require that biology textbooks carry a disclaimer saying evolution is a "controversial theory." The committee said the disclaimer, adopted in November, was added because biology texts do not devote enough space to alternate explanations of how life began.
• A poll of West Virginians released last month found that most people would like more biblically oriented teaching in public schools. A majority (57 percent) said the biblical account of creation is more likely to be the "actual explanation for the origin of human life on earth," while 9 percent selected evolution. Thirty percent said it is most likely that "both are true," while 4 percent were undecided and less than 1 percent said neither is true.
• In Kanawha County, West Virginia, where a policy banning the teaching of "creation science" was approved in 1987, a resolution to reverse the ban was defeated by the school board last December. The measure would have allowed teachers to use their classrooms to challenge theories of evolution.
• Last October, Kentucky's education department deleted the word "evolution" from its standards, replacing it with "change over time." |
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Serbia was one ofthe last palces i expected that to happen, most...well all of the people i know from there are not big fans of religion. And i thought our goverment was being stupid by almost allowing the church to put christianity as a mandatory subject in primary schools 
