Friday, May 19, 2006

Creationism has no place in Science!

Thank goodness for the power of reason and logic to overcome myth and superstition...
http://www.tes.co.uk/2233920
This whole thing was beginning to worry me a great deal...

Also, I have been asked recently, as a representative from a local humanist group, to attend some meetings with local R.E. officials to urge them to include humanism in the R.E. curriculum, but I'm afraid I'm just not convinced - you see, humanism is not a religion, it is a philosophy and to ask for it to be included in R.E. in schools would surely be undermining its whole philosophy and reducing it to the level of religion... There should be an historical approach to teaching the fundamental tenets of major religions; at the moment the world still needs this to help us understand each other more effectively and work to achieve world peace. Secularism, science, Darwinism, progress, cosmopolitanism, understanding the universe etc. belong to the realms of futures studies and global citizenship education...

All of these educational forms are still needed to ensure contemporary social progress, but in the end, the latter two will outlive the former (lest we remain trapped in a form of slavery until humanity's inevitable extinction).

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