The faith community needs to step up to the plate.
The most toxic thing about this whole discussion is the impression that most of the public has, that there's a line in the sand, and you have to be on one side or the other.
The stakes are high,
The stakes are high. If Kansas gets away with it ... I anticipate that in every state where science standards are up for revision, we are going to be fighting another battle.
This action is likely to be the playbook for creationism for the next several years,
This action is likely to be the playbook for creationism for the next several years, ... We can predict this fight happening elsewhere.
This decision is a major victory for science, and a major victory for science education.
This is actually, I think, key to understanding this whole controversy in this country: people think that because science restricts itself to a natural cause, it's therefore saying that God had nothing to do with it.
This is neo-creationism, trying to avoid the legal morass of trying to teach creationism overtly and slip it in through the backdoor.
This would, of course, not open up science but destroy it.
We can predict this fight happening elsewhere.
When they say 'teach the controversy' — their ringing phrase — they want us to pretend to students that scientists are arguing whether evolution took place. This argument is not taking place.
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