England Waives The Rules

[buffalo]

ENGLAND WAIVES THE RULES

England used to be known for ruling the waves. Now it seems that it is about to start waiving the rules!

     For three decades great battles have been fought in courtrooms across       America about whether or not teaching the science of Creation, and more       lately Intelligent Design, should be allowed in science classrooms. The       controversy in America has been relayed in news headlines internationally.       So far, Humanism has generally laid down and enforced the rules throughout       the Western world, to the detriment of the truth of Creation.

     But now, quietly, and without fanfare, it appears that those unjustly       imposed rules are about to be waived, to some small extent, in England.

     Schools in England choose the curriculum that they are to follow from       one of three main Examination Boards. 'The Times' (London) revealed on       March 10th, 2006 that one of these Exam Boards - OCR - is going to       encourage "schools to consider alternative views to Charles Darwin's       theory of evolution." The OCR Board (Oxford, Cambridge and Royal       Society of Arts) was created in 1998 from the amalgamation of three       previous Exam Boards. [www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2078747,00.html](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2078747,00.html)

     A representative of OCR stated:

              "Candidates need to understand the social and historical context         to scientific ideas both pre and post Darwin. Candidates are asked to         discuss why the opponents of Darwinism thought the way they did and how         scientific controversies can arise from different ways of interpreting         empirical evidence."

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[MikeWM]

That doesn’t exactly seem a Catholic-friendly website.

Catholic schools generally follow the lead of the Bishops of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in rejecting the literal and historical truths not just of Genesis, but of the entirety of Holy Scripture!

Either way, what the guy from OCR says is fair enough. We do have to consider different ways of interpreting empirical evidence. The fact that there is no empirical evidence for creationism, i.d., or whatever the anti-Darwin flavour of the month is, would be suitably exposed by such teaching.

Mike

 

[Libero]

Yeah don’t bother getting too excited about this…

I am taking the OCR GCSE in Religion and Philosophy - mainly Chirstian thought. We have covered alternatives to Evolution extensively. I suspect that no where near as much authority will be put in the “discussion” over creationism as there is about Darwins theory.

In my biology class we have also covered the areas in which Darwin is wrong, and we have done the cosmological argument.

The general feeling among students though is still that Darwin is right…

 

[Libero]

Woops I meant to say Anthropic principle there…