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Whatever happened to academic freedom in America¹s public schools?
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Evolutionary scientists throughout America are running scared. They see the
inroads being made by creationists who have been educating the public about
the bankruptcy of the molecules-to-man evolutionary belief system. Most
recently, their alarm has been manifested in how many of them are attempting
to intimidate school board members who have decided that students should be
able to critically analyze evolution.

On the heels of a big ³win² that secularists saw in Dover, Pennsylvania,
late last year, where a federal judge ruled that students could not hear a
short statement about intelligent design, some emboldened evolutionists
raised the specter of court action in Ohio if the Ohio State Board of
Education did not remove a guideline which indicated that science teachers
were allowed to give "critical analysis" of evolution. (The Ohio standards
did not mandate that intelligent design or biblical creation be taught in
schools, though.)

[February 16th], the state school board, meeting in Columbus, kowtowed to
the evolutionist activists and effectively voted (11-4) to accept the
dubious argument that somehow allowing evolution to be analyzed critically
was the same as introducing intelligent design in the classroom. When Ohio
Governor Bob Taft indicated a few days ago that over time he would be
selecting new board members who would not be critical of evolution, the vote
yesterday to remove the "critical analysis" of evolution guideline was not
surprising.

Obviously, the secular humanists involved here and in other states don¹t
want students to even know that there is observational evidence in science
that totally contradicts molecules-to-man evolution. Thus they exert legal
pressure and even propose legislation (as is being discussed in Wisconsin)
to give special protection to the teaching of evolutionary ideas in public
schools (http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0215ohio.asp)

[TBC: No matter how you slice it, hypocrisy is hypocrisy. This is no attempt
to teach critical thinking. The evolutionary team is only interested in
indoctrination with a viciousness no less intellectually barren than the
cliche fundamentalist which so populates what passes for satire today. It
also begs the question, "if the evidence overwhelmingly supports evolution,
why is it not allowed to be tested?" Unfortunately, then you would have real
science, and that's not something secularists are interested in as it raises
too many embarrassing questions.]
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