tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post1196787442388991345..comments2024-03-26T14:34:28.415-07:00Comments on Religion and Child Abuse News: Louisiana student fighting legislation allowing creationism in science classes challenges deluded congresswoman to debatePerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-35034079159769851592016-05-10T15:18:47.971-07:002016-05-10T15:18:47.971-07:00Just Cant COPE - Kansas Anti-Evolution Group Loses...Just Cant COPE - Kansas Anti-Evolution Group Loses Second Challenge To Science Curriculum Standards<br /><br />by Sarah E. Jones, Wall of Separation April 22, 2016<br /><br />A Kansas-based creationist group has lost a legal challenge to science education standards in public schools. Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE) filed suit against the Kansas Board of Education in 2013 to Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-4407271401934352252016-04-13T14:42:50.799-07:002016-04-13T14:42:50.799-07:00To counter the tack of creationists which is to pl...To counter the tack of creationists which is to plant seeds of doubt as to the legitimacy of evolution, she teaches about the social controversy in the first week and assures her students that there is no scientific controversy over evolution. Dr. Jones also reassures her students. “I’m not trying to take you away from God. There are different religious stories around the world regarding originsPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15670404228333753292016-04-13T14:42:36.650-07:002016-04-13T14:42:36.650-07:00Evolution in Georgia A job for the Teacher Institu...Evolution in Georgia A job for the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science<br /><br />by Michele Drucker, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason, March 9, 2016<br /><br /><i>Leslie Jones is a biology professor at Valdosta State University. She spoke with TIES volunteer Michele Drucker about teaching education at the college level. Dr. Jones has seen a positive shift in students’ Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-65048780770474982862016-02-12T13:22:48.595-08:002016-02-12T13:22:48.595-08:00Proponents of intelligent design say they have no ...Proponents of intelligent design say they have no agenda and are working to promote a scientific theory.<br /><br />“Evolution is a constellation of lots of different questions and issues, and the peer-reviewed scientific literature is rife with disagreements about various parts of evolutionary theory,” John G. West, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, wrote in an email interview. “There Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-52858009451652317192016-02-12T13:22:28.152-08:002016-02-12T13:22:28.152-08:00Darwin Day notwithstanding, evolution debate keeps...Darwin Day notwithstanding, evolution debate keeps, well, evolving<br /><br />by Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service February 11, 2016<br /><br />(RNS) In 2005, a federal judge ruled that “intelligent design” — the idea that life is so complex it must have involved some sort of supernatural creator — isn’t science, but religion in disguise.<br /><br />Science educators heralded the decision, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-75387494911824288182016-02-04T11:28:33.750-08:002016-02-04T11:28:33.750-08:00The evolutionary biologist Prof Richard Dawkins sa...The evolutionary biologist Prof Richard Dawkins said Wilkinson was misusing the word theory. “Scientists call evolution a theory only in a special scientists’ sense, which is NOT the same as the layman’s ‘tentative hypothesis’,” he said.<br /><br />“This is so often misunderstood that I now recommend abandoning the confusing word ‘theory’ altogether for the case of evolution. Evoluton is a fact, Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-34173724737442880712016-02-04T11:28:24.773-08:002016-02-04T11:28:24.773-08:00Headteacher mocked on Twitter for claiming evoluti...Headteacher mocked on Twitter for claiming evolution is not a fact<br /><br />Richard Dawkins weighs in on social media debate after Christina Wilkinson said there was ‘more evidence that Bible is true’<br /><br />by Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent, The Guardian February 3, 2016<br /><br />A primary school headteacher has been mocked on Twitter after claiming that evolution was “a Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-38983189309941213062016-01-02T15:19:38.846-08:002016-01-02T15:19:38.846-08:00Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children
video...Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children<br /><br />video by Bill Nye <br /><br />Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. According to Bill Nye, aka "the science guy," if grownups want to "deny evolution and live in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15162329429729775852016-01-02T15:08:18.911-08:002016-01-02T15:08:18.911-08:00According to one email I obtained from Bossier Par...According to one email I obtained from Bossier Parish science teachers, students are learning the “Creation point of view” by reading the Book of Genesis and being given “supplemental material debunking various aspects of evolution.” In a different email bashing the ACLU and celebrating religious influence in Bossier schools, one Bossier teacher, Carolyn Goodwin, explained her support for Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-30358892770901042142016-01-02T15:08:09.722-08:002016-01-02T15:08:09.722-08:00Creationism Whistleblower: ‘Academic Freedom’ Is S...Creationism Whistleblower: ‘Academic Freedom’ Is Sneak Attack on Evolution<br /><br />by Zack Kopplin, The Daily Beast December 28, 2015 <br /><br />The ‘intelligent design’ push in public classrooms failed a decade ago, but since then Darwin’s haters have returned with a new strategy disguised as science.<br /><br />When a public school teacher walks into his or her biology classroom, he or shePerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-79723893063176626182016-01-02T14:48:29.571-08:002016-01-02T14:48:29.571-08:00Boca Raton father and son sue school district for ...Boca Raton father and son sue school district for not teaching evolution<br /><br />18-page lawsuit filed last month<br /><br />By Angela Rozier, WPBF 25 West Palm Beach December 16, 2015<br /><br />BOCA RATON, Fla. —A Boca Raton father and son have filed a lawsuit claiming the Palm Beach County school board isn't teaching the theory of evolution.<br /><br />Brandon Silver, 11, and his Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-63428533011616107232015-12-13T14:17:44.858-08:002015-12-13T14:17:44.858-08:00I asked students about one of the incidents descri...I asked students about one of the incidents described in the ACLU’s complaint. Michelle explained that after one of the school’s coaches died, principal Rowland came on the intercom and said, “OK, now I’m going to have a prayer to the almighty God, and if you believe in the almighty God—I know I do—pray to him.” Allie, told me about another intercom incident. After the Boston bombing, while Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-14350163245497450752015-12-13T14:17:36.656-08:002015-12-13T14:17:36.656-08:00The Bossier school system has justified teaching c...The Bossier school system has justified teaching creationism through a law called the Louisiana Science Education Act that allows teachers to “critique” evolution through “supplemental materials.” In an email to Michael Gryboski, a reporter for the Christian Post, representatives of the school district told him, “Our educators may choose to use the Bible as supplementary material in presenting Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-88008472326486994092015-12-13T14:15:24.091-08:002015-12-13T14:15:24.091-08:00Religion is being forced on students at every oppo...Religion is being forced on students at every opportunity, and some of them are fed up with it. <br />One preacher who spoke at the rally announced that he needed Christians with “fingers to fight, and hands to war.”<br /><br />On Fox and Friends, principal Rowland claimed that students had never complained to him about Christianity in the schools. “I’ve never had a complaint from a student of Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-89294196354531972652015-12-13T14:14:18.553-08:002015-12-13T14:14:18.553-08:00Religious Rants in the Classroom
Students in publ...Religious Rants in the Classroom<br /><br />Students in public school say Christianity is being forced on them.<br /><br />By Zack Kopplin, SLATE November 2 2015<br /><br />During health class, students at Airline High, a public school in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, read Bible passages, and their teacher asks them to identify their favorite verses. Airline students told me they are taught Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-45151624071407587982015-09-23T14:13:47.763-07:002015-09-23T14:13:47.763-07:00Alabama will require students to learn about evolu...Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change<br /><br />By JAY REEVES, Associated Press September 13, 2015 <br /><br />Alabama is updating its decade-old science standards to require that students understand evolution and learn about climate change, topics that can still be controversial in the Bible Belt state.<br /><br />Educators say the new rules — part of a major Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-41993667586577372472015-07-12T11:01:32.972-07:002015-07-12T11:01:32.972-07:00In both studies Gervais found a statistically sign...In both studies Gervais found a statistically significant relationship between the extent to which individuals exhibited a more analytic style and their endorsement of evolution. Importantly, the relationship remained significant even when controlling for other variables that predict evolutionary beliefs, including belief in God, religious upbringing and political conservatism.<br /><br />The Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-52229642979386467412015-07-12T11:01:24.371-07:002015-07-12T11:01:24.371-07:00Dont Believe In Evolution Try Thinking Harder
b...Dont Believe In Evolution Try Thinking Harder<br /><br />by Tania Lombrozo, NPR JUNE 29, 2015<br /><br />The theory of evolution by natural selection is among the best established in science, yet also among the most controversial for subsets of the American public.<br /><br />For decades we've known that beliefs about evolution are well-predicted by demographic factors, such as religious Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-41665949099036492642015-05-03T11:47:35.325-07:002015-05-03T11:47:35.325-07:00In 2010 Livingston Parish came close to endorsing ...In 2010 Livingston Parish came close to endorsing the teaching of creationism. At a Livingston Parish School Board meeting, Jan Benton, then the school system’s director of curriculum (now a member of the school board), told the board that the Louisiana Science Education Act was for “critical thinking and creationism.” Board member David Tate got fired up and announced, “We don’t pray to the ACLUPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-6489718948460991812015-05-03T11:47:24.559-07:002015-05-03T11:47:24.559-07:00Other emails from Ouachita Parish provided even mo...Other emails from Ouachita Parish provided even more evidence that creationism was being taught in Louisiana schools. Two West Monroe High School science teachers, Kyle Hill and Jessica Wyatt, discussed questions for their students to promote higher-order thinking skills. Promoting critical thinking is one of the main political arguments for the Louisiana Science Education Act, and these teachersPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-67701793664037505372015-05-03T11:46:26.824-07:002015-05-03T11:46:26.824-07:00Nevers was explicit in his goals for this law. He ...Nevers was explicit in his goals for this law. He told the Hammond Star that the Louisiana Family Forum suggested the bill to him because “[t]hey believe that scientific data related to creationism should be discussed when dealing with Darwin’s theory.”<br /><br />Several scientists testified against the Louisiana Science Education Act before the House Education Committee, including Bryan Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-40428091932897838572015-05-03T11:44:46.950-07:002015-05-03T11:44:46.950-07:00I requested a copy of the teacher signed letter fr...I requested a copy of the teacher signed letter from the Ouachita Parish School Board. The first signature is from Robert Webber, the superintendent of Ouachita Parish Schools, but the school system’s lawyer, Elmer Noah, told me that the letter was not a “school board document” and that the school system didn’t possess it. “I object to your characterization of the document as a public record,” hePerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-12735741942815789792015-05-03T11:43:45.392-07:002015-05-03T11:43:45.392-07:00Dismissing Darwin
Records show teachers and schoo...Dismissing Darwin<br /><br />Records show teachers and school board members conspiring to teach creationism in public school science class.<br /><br />By Zack Kopplin, Slate April 21, 2015<br /><br />When I was a high school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2010, I began a campaign to repeal my state’s “creationism law,” which allows teachers to sneak religion into public school science Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-71931345484372711832015-04-12T13:52:44.241-07:002015-04-12T13:52:44.241-07:00Novak said the Gideon Bible issue itself was resol...Novak said the Gideon Bible issue itself was resolved in 2012 when controversy sparked debate and a new policy 518 was issued by the board in 2013 that ensured a review process.<br /><br />“We actually aren’t distributing the Gideon Bible,” she said. “It is not being distributed to Grade 5 students or in our schools.”<br /><br />Novak said she wouldn’t authorize permission slips to get either thePerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-83618257111563451732015-04-12T13:52:36.235-07:002015-04-12T13:52:36.235-07:00Dawkins book denied distribution in Chilliwack sch...Dawkins book denied distribution in Chilliwack schools<br /><br />by Greg Laychak - Chilliwack Times April 1, 2015<br /><br />An educational charity organization claims that its submission of a textbook to the Chilliwack school district was not fairly considered when it was denied entry into public school circulation last month.<br /><br />In late February, Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com