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Assistant Professor of Biology David A. Baum applauded the Pope's recognition of scientific evidence. "The Pope's statement is good, given the great creationist push in this country. [Creationists] can't turn their backs on the evidence," he said...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Scopes trial creationist getting his lumps again in hit Broadway revival of Inherit the Wind...
...approach dates to a landmark 1987 Supreme Court ruling. In Edwards v. Aguillard, the court overturned a Louisiana law that required creationism to be taught alongside evolution. At the same time, it opened a creationist loophole by stipulating that schools could teach "a variety of scientific theories about the origins of humankind." That sounds reasonable. If scientists argue about the merits of one theory as opposed to another, why shouldn't anti-evolutionists be able to present their side of the controversy in the classroom...
After all, the relative truth of creationist and evolutionary theory is not susceptible to a vote. Nor are the psychological mechanisms of childhood learning. To consign the academic fate of America's children to anything less than astute professionals is to invite mediocrity. The American educational system has problems far more pressing than the moral significance of the Rainbow Curriculum. Let's leave the management of out schools to people with the experience, training and wisdom to confront them...
...What do you think of the creationist groups that disagree with...