How to Teach the
Controversy Legally video by the Discovery Institute
(17.5MB Windows Media file) Want to teach the scientific
controversy over evolution but aren't sure what is allowable? This short
video clearly and concisely summarizes the legal framework for teaching
about evolution. A great resource for teachers, school board members,
and parents, this video features interviews with scientists and legal
scholars and explains how to teach the controversy over evolution in a
legally responsible manner.
"Fifty
studies were reviewed that surveyed opinions on teaching origins
in public schools. The vast majority found about 90% of the public
desired that both creation and evolution or creation only be
taught in the public schools. About 90% of Americans consider
themselves creationists of some form, and about half believe
that God created humans in their present form within the past
10,000 years. In America, about 15% of high school teachers teach
both evolution and creation, and close to 20% of high school
science teachers and about 10,000 scientists (including more
than 4,000 life scientists) reject both macroevolution and theistic
evolution. Although the vast majority of Americans desire both
creation and evolution taught in school, the evolutionary naturalism
worldview dominates, revealing a major disparity between the
population and the ruling élite." Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.
Creation
Ex Nihilo Technical Journal Vol. 13, No. 2
General Resources and News on Teaching
Origins in Public Schools
Intelligent
Design network IDnet was organized in connection with the
debate over the Kansas Science Education Standards, and their
objective is to promote evidence-based science education with
regard to the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity
An easy-to-understand discussion of the major scientific evidences for
creation and against evolution, explaining how these can be taught legally
and effectively in public schools. $5.00
Cobb issues evolution guidelines to teachers 1/9/03 guidelines advise teachers to moderate
class discussion carefully and if conflicts arise, "to promote
a sense of scientific inquiry and understanding of scientific
methods, and to distinguish between scientific and philosophical
or religious issues."
Ohio Strengthens Teaching of Evolution 12/12/02 NYTimes board unanimously approved on
standards that more strongly advocate the teaching of evolution
while letting students fully criticize the legitimacy of the
theory.
Ohio Panel Gives Evolution Nod 10/14/02 NYTimes A state school board panel Monday
recommended that Ohio science classes emphasize both evolution
and the debate over its validity.
Ohio OKs Creation in Science Class 10/15/02 NYTimes. The state school board said
Tuesday it will adopt a science curriculum that leaves it up
to school districts whether to teach the concept of ``intelligent
design,'' which holds that the universe is guided by a higher
intelligence.
Ohio Board Backs Academic Freedom and Encourages
Critical Analysis of Evolution
October 15, 2002 After months of deliberation and debate, the
State Board of Education in Ohio has added language to its proposed
science standards that will encourage public schools in that
state to teach scientific criticisms of evolutionary theory.
Panel approves science guidelines 10/15/02 A State Board of Education committee
yesterday approved a set of science standards that struck a delicate
balance between teaching evolution and allowing for classroom
debate of the theory.
Evolution Debate In Federal Court CBS News Sept. 26, 2005. Eighty
years after the Scopes Monkey Trial, the latest legal chapter in the
debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools is to unfold in
federal court.
Defending “design” in Dover (Pennsylvania, USA) School policy that questions Darwin and informs about
intelligent design goes to federal court. by Pam Sheppard, staff writer,
AiG–USA. September 26, 2005
‘Intelligent design’ voted in
A Pennsylvania school
board recently voted to include intelligent design in the district's
science curriculum. 10/19/04
Professors argue intelligent design 1/1/03 School District recently added new language to
its mission statement that permits science teachers to discuss
theories of intelligent design alongside evolution.
No evolution for
Italian teens The Scientist 4/28/04. Scientists, teachers shocked by
plan to cut evolutionary teaching in secondary school
Quotes
An evolutionist teacher
acknowledges exploiting students’ trust when he preaches evolution’s
doctrines in the classroom. “…I
use that trust to effectively brainwash them…our teaching methods are
primarily those of propaganda. We appeal---without demonstration---to
evidence that supports our position. We only introduce arguments and
evidence that supports the currently accepted theories and omit or gloss
over any evidence to the contrary.”
Mark Singham, “Teaching and Propaganda,”
Physics Today, (vol. 53, June 2000), p. 54; as quoted by Dr. Henry B.
Morris, Impact, supra.