UK Government: ID and Creationism are not Science
Posted on September 29th, 2007I just came across the UK government's Teachernet's guidance on teaching creationism in UK schools. What's in this document? It's the best write-up I've seen about the evolution debate, along with comment on its place in science teaching in the UK. There is a list of questions, a glossary of terms, a thorough introduction to the topic, and then the guidance. It's written clearly enough for anyone to understand the question and the answer. In short, on teaching ID and creationism in science, the guidance says "don't teach it". Why can't everything be so well explained and clear cut? I love it!
Unfortunately it's not dated, so I can't figure out how new this is. The Word file stats suggest it was created September 2007 (File->Properties then select the Statistics tab). Regardless, it's a very useful document to keep handy for those inevitable times when this discussion comes up.
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