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. |