Do "Intelligent Design" still taught in the US schools ?

[Telstra]

I know its old but i want to know if they still taught ID at schools.

 

[star-warrior]

Sunday school maybe...?

 

[Essex Boy]

When I was at school the boys did technical drawing and metalwork and the girls did cookery and needlework. Is that the sort of thing you mean? That was in the UK though.

 

[braex27]

I don't think it's legal for public schools to teach it in Australia.

 

[vater292]

They never taught it in any of the schools I went to.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Do English still taught in Austrailian schools?

 

[youfiad]

I like turtles.

 

[T-Rexx]

"Intelligent Design" (aka "religion") is required teaching in Texas school science classes.

 

[T-Rexx]

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2498/_texas_textbook_massacre/

In addition to rewriting the social studies’ standards, the board last year also made significant changes to the science curriculum, inserting language that raises questions about the validity of evolution and man-made climate change. Fundamentalist Christians on the board fought for and approved creationist and intelligent-design friendly language asking students to analyze the “complexity of the cell” as well as “analyze and evaluate the sufficiency of scientific explanations concerning any data of sudden appearance, stasis and the sequential nature of groups in the fossil records.”

 

[Telstra]

Do English still taught in Austrailian schools?

nO, tHEy TAught ciTyboylish ...

 

[T-Rexx]

^^ There is no place for religion in science class. None.

Teaching kids that science may be inferior to religion as an explanation of the universe in the science class itself defeats the purpose of science class. This is not teaching kids healthy skepticism, which is a fundamental part of science. This is teaching them that the internal discipline and controls that make science such a powerful tool for interpreting reality are no better than authoritarianism when it comes to understanding the universe.

The whole point of science is that it is not authoritarianism. The whole point of science is that it offers a non-religious and objective path toward enlightenment. Attempting to defeat this message by mixing it with religious thought defeats the purpose of science instruction.

Texas children are not taught to appreciate the beauty, power, and elegance that is science. They are taught that it is something akin to religion. It is not.

It is okay to teach kids religion. But not that religion and science are really the same thing.

 

[Telstra]

Thankyou Dejavudoo for your answers.
Now i'm disappointment about some US schools.

 

[Telstra]

That's surprising, Telly.

Education doesn't appear to have been a priority in your past or in your current goals, from statements you have made and things you post.

Do you know the mind of an Atheist ?

 

[Telstra]

I don't read story books but i do watch documentaries, debates and news.
Is that bad or uneducated ?

 

[lambdaboy]

Not sure where is taught but over 47% of Americans do not believe in evolution. I now live in London so don't care!

 

[umjreon88]

I only believe in the one true God: Nature!

 

[T-Rexx]

But, you don't get to dismiss every school and teacher in Texas because of your bigotry.

Who is "dismissing" "every school and teacher in Texas?"

Texas schools are required to teach religion as science. That is abuse of Texas schoolchildren, who are being denied a proper education.

And when did advocating for science, education, reason, and scholarship become "bigotry?"

SOME teachers may try it, but by no means is every teacher or school in Texas REQUIRED to teach ID.

The textbooks themselves are required to accommodate the thinking behind "intelligent design." That is antithetical to the very concept of science.

In religion class, they are not required to teach you that the concept of God may be nonsense, as scientific explanations of the world may provide be a logically better alternative. That would be stupid. Just as stupid as requiring the teaching of religion in science class.

Implying that Texas students don't learn science is both inaccurate and lame.

No, it isn't.

Texas students are being denied a proper science education. They are not being exposed to the elegance and beauty and discipline that is science. They are being taught it is equivalent to authoritarianism. That misses the whole point.

It is fine to teach kids both religion and science. These two disciplines are not contradictory, as Texas schoolbooks imply. My thesis adviser in graduate school was a monk! It is quite possible to embrace both disciplines enthusiastically and creatively, without contradiction. But, Texas students are denied this education.

Texas A & M, just to name one, has high standards.

I am not aware that higher education in Texas requires the teaching of religion as science.

If universities in Texas were subjected to the same standards as elementary schools there, I rather expect you would see a mass exodus of science people OUT of Texas universities.

Your statements are nothing but invectives against millions of people.

My statements are invectives against the teaching of religion as science - because that is extremely damaging to education in America.

I'm not clear on why that is offensive to you.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Religion and intelligence don't belong in the same sentence.

I'd rather hang out with the apes then a believer.

 

[TX-Beau]

I never had a teacher teach "religion as science."

They did have some interesting ideas about the Civil War though.

 

[TX-Beau]

I never had a teacher teach "religion as science."

They did have some interesting ideas about the Civil War though.

Trexx the wing-nuts playing with textbooks aren't actually interested in "education," they're interested in scoring political points and while I'm sure there are a few nutty educators out there, Dude, Austin is more progressive than LA and if you tried to teach that intelligent design crap they'd lynch you.

At a university level,no way, except maybe at places like Baylor and they're crazy anyway.