The teaching of evolution is becoming increasingly difficult in UK schools because of the rise of creationism, a leading scientist is warning. Head of science at London's Institute of Education Professor Michael Reiss says some teachers, fearful of entering the debate, avoid the subject totally.
Creationism and it's brother, Intelligent Design, which is just creationism dressed up in a lab coat, needs to be stomped on, breathed on and then stomped on some more. Anyone who still believes, in the face of the overwhelming evidence for humans coming into existence via evolutionary processes, that we were farted out of some middle eastern sky God's arse one Saturday morning in a moron. Believe in Intelligent Design if you want but I mentioned in a previous post if there was a designer he wasn't very intelligent but you're being wilfully ignorant and if you inflict this ignorance on your kids that's tantamount to child abuse in my book.
However what's even more scary is the reason Prof Reiss gives for the problem:
Prof Reiss says the rise of creationism is partly down to the large increase in Muslim pupils in UK schools. He said: "The number of Muslim students has grown considerably in the last 10 to 20 years and a higher proportion of Muslim families do not accept evolutionary theory compared with Christian families.
Yeah, and I bet that whereas most Christian families would just tut and scream their prayers a bit louder in little Johnny's ears the Muslims will be going down the school, demanding that their religion be respected and making those veiled threats along the "this is inflaming community tensions" which translates as "shut up dhimmis or its fatwa and explosions time".
I despair sometimes.
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