Re: Teaching Evolution has a bright future in the US

On 5/20/2025 4:23 AM, jillery wrote:

On Mon, 19 May 2025 11:04:14 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
wrote:
 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/teaching-evolution-has-a-bright-future-in-the-u-s/
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This is a January opinion piece that was free to read for me.
Scientific American is offering 90 days for $1.
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Science standards have improved in most states since the ID scam took
over from the scientific creationists.  This has mainly been due the
utter failure of scientific creationism and ID, but is also due to the
fact that the creationist rubes do not want to teach the obfuscation and
denial switch scam junk if they cannot tell the students why they are
lying to them.  They do not want to teach the students enough science
for them to understand what they have to deny, if they can't tell them
why they need to deny the science.  Nearly all the creationist rubes
that have had the bait and switch run on them by the ID perps have
refused to implement the obfuscation and denial switch scam, and have
either failed to pass the switch scam stupidity, or they dropped the
issue without even trying.
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Instead, the creationists have tried to dumb down the science standards.
  Kansas succeeded in dropping biological evolution, the Big Bang, and
things like understanding radio isotopes in chemistry class from the
state science standards, and this was not rectified until enough of the
creationists were voted out and standards were reestablished that would
ensure a decent science education.  Even though this tactic is just
stupid and sad when the goal is to improve public education, other
states like Texas and Oklahoma have also tried to do similar things with
their science standards, but the creationists haven't had enough votes
to censor the valid science.
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It should also be noted that creationists are starting to try to reform
and are trying to end the science denial stupidity.  Several YEC
denominations are trying to convert to OEC since the failure of ID in
the Federal courts.  They seem to understand that ID was just warmed
over scientific creationism that didn't make the grade in the 20th century.
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Ron Okimoto

  The article specifically focuses on public schools.  What the article
ignores are private schools, where religious-based Creationism and ID
are the norm.  It also ignores Republican and Trump administration
efforts to eliminate DoE, and SCOTUS encouragement to use public tax
monies to help pay for private schools.  As long as these powers
continue to allow public schools to be targets for idiots with a gun
and a grudge, parents who are concerned about their children's safety
will continue to vote with their feet for Creationism and ID.
 

The ID perps are currently claiming that they still support teaching ID for home school and private schools, and unlike their public school claims they have a curriculum designed for that purpose, but it is not recommended for public schools.  It is part of their religious outreach program where they are more open about the religious aspects of the ID scam.
You can access it through their Science and Faith web site.
https://scienceandgod.org/resources/
Even though it is scienceandgod.org it is a Discovery Institute web site that you access by using the "Education" pull down menu on their ID scam web page.
https://www.discovery.org/id/
Ron Okimoto