Ministers(UK MPs)to ban creationist teaching aids in science lessons

The government is to write to schools telling them that controversial teaching materials promoting creationism should not be used in science lessons.
The packs include DVDs and written materials promoting intelligent design, a creationist alternative to Darwinism, that were sent to every school in the country by the privately-funded group Truth in Science. Advocates of the theory argue that some features of the universe and nature are so complex that they must have been designed by a higher intelligence. Last week, the Guardian revealed that 59 schools had told Truth in Science the materials were a "useful classroom resource".

More...http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1965986,00.html
Or Here...http://richarddawkins.net/article,396,Ministers-to-ban-creationist-teaching-aids-in-science-lessons,James-Randerson-The-Guardian

Speak English, Dammit!

Er.... ;-)

IMHO, there's no better lesson on science than taking apart creationist bullshit. A real science education should teach kids to tell the difference between scientific theory and supernatural beliefs.

...But you can not know for sure if ALL teachers will have that same way of thinking. I would enjoy very much dismantling that faux science ID shit too if I was a science teacher, there is more evidence AGAINST ID then there is fro it.

You can watch it, and then you can prepare point-by-point rebuttals to the materials given with your own presentation and materials.

was more enlightened. For the moment at least, I will continue to believe that Europe minus the UK still has better sense. Please don't tell me I'm wrong. This is such foolishness and in Darwin's home country too. Thank God at least that science is not democratic. It doesn't need the popular vote to prevail. Natural selection will do what it does, and the Creationists/Intelligent Design advocates will die and evolution and selection will be conserved. The Second Law of Thermodynamics exists, and because it does we do too. Amen.

and I think it's largely due to Tony Blair. He's in love with 'faith schools' - since, in the 19th century, many schools were started by the Church of England, before schooling became a right for everyone, they were allowed to continue having some say in the running of those schools, and new ones they helped found, even though the running costs of those schools comes purely from taxes, just like 'normal' state schools. There are also Roman Catholic schools, a few Jewish schools, and, since Blair came to power, some Muslim schools run and funded the same way.

Blair likes the 'ethos' of faith schools, and encourages more of them. "Foundation schools" are schools where a charity, company or individual contributes about 10% to the start-up costs of a school, and in return gets to appoint the headmaster and board of governors. A creationist car dealer has done this, and when it became apparent the schools had appointed a creationist as the head of science, Blair was asked to condemn the teaching of creationism in the school. Blair refused. This has encouraged the creationists; sure enough, we find that head of science has links to "Truth in Science":

Too bad it won't catch on here.