Dawkins Wins the Internets
posted by Withiel @ 11:18 am
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New culture injection at keyboardpoint + attack journalism + pop-culture analysis + drunken musing = [The Rhexis].
New culture injection at keyboardpoint + attack journalism + pop-culture analysis + drunken musing = [The Rhexis].
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Right, this is an issue which rather interests me as a prospective teacher. In the article, considering the quote ' "Intelligent" Design: Get it out of the science classroom and back to the church where it belongs' they want I.D taken out of the NC completely.
To me, this is such a ridiculous proposal because it is a scientific theory and a religious belief, and so should appear in the teaching of science and R.E. I don't even believe that it should be resigned to one subject category. Cross curriculum teaching is an essential part of the NC and teachers strive to link as much as they are teaching together.
ID in science would provide the opportunity for students to see that scientific knowledge is not static, and understand that people still disagree over such issues. Whereas in R.E, not only will the children already know about it through their science lessons (or vice versa) which is important enough, they will learn that it is one of many religious beliefs.
Anyway, surely they should all be taught considering that we do only have theories. I don't think anyone should confine ID to the Church, as it cannot be decided that, well, actually we're just going to say that Darwin was right, and teach that. That's as bad as teaching creationism as truth. At the moment nothing is taught as 'truth' and students are free to make up their own minds. If evolution was to be accepted then this is forcing children into a belief surely?
You may also be interested to know that a project in York in 2003 where students aged 14-16 took '21st Century Science' exams, instead of the common single/double science exams GCSE pupils currently take; and part of their course did include 'Theories of the Origin of Life'. So it doesn't look like anything will change any time soon, even if these new, revised science exams will replace our beloved 'science' exams.
But if creationism is merely a religious belief, then you are saying it's wrong because the children will be taught about evolution in science and then in RE that some people believe this to be false. Teaching one truth is imposing what the majority think on children, when after all, evolution is still a theory.
(I could be talking rubbish, and it is with this fear that I try not to comment if I can help it.)
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