TENNESSEE: Senate Passes Bill Allowing The Teaching Of Creationism

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27. I agree wholeheartedly with that law

As written, who could disagree?

I am all for "helping students to understand, analyze, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories taught in public schools."

Would anyone have supported disciplining a teacher who, in 1900, pointed out (correctly) that Newtonian physics as it was being taught could not fully account for the orbit of Mercury? That would be part of a good science education.

The problem here is that we are talking about creationists who have no regard whatsoever for the scientific mothed, reason, evidence or even objectivity as a category.

But if there was any hope of this law being properly applied, as written, using legitimate non-political standards of objective analysis and critique, it would be a fine law in and of itself.

I would have no interest in fighting this. Not worth the trouble. I would save my powder for adjudicating the application of it.

Since no creationist has ever offered an "objective critique" of anything, and since no objective critique supports their views, no teacher acting in support of creationism (or dismissal or broad disparagement of evolution) could find any safe harbor in the application of this law, as written.

(To anyone who doesn't know, from my other posts, I am as staunch an evolutionist and atheist as one will find.)