Sentences with phrase «teaching of evolution»

2006: Eugenie Scott, the Dover High School Department, and R. Wesley McCoy — The two individuals and the teachers, each independently and in their own way, fought the attempts to replace sound teaching of evolution with the false science of creationism.

Thirty leading scientists and science educators including Sir David Attenborough, Professor Richard Dawkins and Professor Michael Reiss, and five national organisations have signed up to a new statement calling for the extension of teaching of evolution in school science and firmer statutory guidance against the promotion of creationism.

Gosh, vic... if you are equating the sale of ciggys as being bad for the world and then try to piggyback teaching of evolution with it, you go to the top of the list in the moronic argument hall of fame

While hateful Christians blame teaching of evolution, prayer in schools, and even gays for the killings, the truth is a lot of violence is perpetrated by hateful Christians.

The organization, which fought successfully for accurate teaching of evolution, helped to develop the national science standards released in 2013 that made the teaching of global warming part of the public school curriculum.

The National Center for Science Education, which supports the teaching of evolution in public education, is closely monitoring the case.

One of the key strategies of Satan is to secularize America by influencing what is taught in our schools and universities, and the teaching of evolution is key.

A quick observation shows that the opposition to abortion, opposition to church and state separation, and opposition to the teaching of evolution are more important than strength of character.

(9) The researching and teaching of evolution has had a secular bias as well, since science has been carried on largely in a secular context as a secular enterprise, in relation to which religious affirmations (such as creation) are seen as quaint and superfluous.

So strong was their influence that they succeeded in having laws passed in some Southern states prohibiting the teaching of evolution.

Or as passionate as they are in Northern Ireland, or when they bomb abortion clinics, or when they protest against gay marriage, or when they deny contraception to women in Third World countries, or when they pass the death penalty for gays in the Uganda Parliament, or when they allow millions to die in Africa due to opposition to condom use, or when they try to stop the teaching of evolution in school, or when they deny HPV vaccinations to their children.

Attempts to use the law to restrict or dilute the teaching of evolution in public schools matters because science matters.

John Scopes, a high school science teacher, was tried for violating a Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution.

In the days before the Kansas School Board's August decision to strip the teaching of evolution from state science standards, the presidents of the Kansas university system issued a statement.

There are laws that try and limit the teaching of evolution in school.

By undermining the teaching of evolution in Tennessee's public schools,» he said, «HB368 and SB893 would miseducate students, harm the state's national reputation, and weaken its efforts to compete in a science - driven global economy.

The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, which struck down the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools, turned the evangelical movement into a national laughingstock and provoked an evangelical retreat from politics.

As indicated by the recent debates (in Kansas and elsewhere) over the public school teaching of evolution, they are persuading many conservatives to join them in their attack on evolution.

With the rise of the theory of evolution, some Christians have proposed different ways of reading Genesis 1 that help it fit with the teachings of evolution.

Ya let jj get by with»... WARNING: The teaching of Evolution and the acceptance of the 150 + years...» And you know evolutionary theory has been around for about 25 centuries.

WARNING: The teaching of Evolution and the acceptance of the 150 + years and mountains of gathered evidence that supports evolution is hazardous to one's faith (delusion).

@Free: Would you be opposed to teaching of evolution be okay as long as God and Christ are also taught in the schools?

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

According to Edward J. Larson's scholarly, informative, Pulitzer Prize - winning book, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, the prosecution of young John Scopes for presumedly violating a state law restricting the teaching of evolution in the public schools need not have resulted in the now legendary high - pitched standoff between the atheistic radical Clarence Darrow and the robustly religious populist William Jennings Bryan.

Finally, he objected to the teaching of evolution, especially with regard to the origin of man, because he felt that it led to the rise of ugly ideas like eugenics and social Darwinism, and furthermore discouraged any hope for the progress of mankind.

However, the upheaval of the «20s has received renewed public concern in recent years because of the revival of fundamentalism in the US and the sponsorship of creationism in schools as opposed to the teaching of evolution.

I have been commissioned to write many a passionate condemnation of America's moral decay as exemplified by abortion, gay marriage, or the teaching of evolution.

When the play was revived on Broadway in 1995 by Tony Randall's National Actors Theater, Randall — citing recent renewed efforts by the Tennessee state legislature to restrict the teaching of evolution — asserted that the play is «much more timely today than when it was written.»

This idea that science disproves God is exactly the reason that Christians oppose the teaching of evolution and the big bang.

A young teacher named John Scopes stood accused of violating the Butler Act, a measure passed earlier that year to restrict the teaching of evolution in state - funded schools.

Many scientists believe in both god AND evolution, like Ken Miller, biology professor, textbook author, and key trial for the teaching of evolution in the Dover trial... who is also a devout and practicing Catholic.

Today the BHA launched a new campaign along with Sir David Attenborough, Prof Richard Dawkins, Prof Michael Reiss, 27 other scientists and four other organisations calling on the government to introduce guidance that creationism may not be taught in schools, and that the teaching of evolution must be.

The Government has revised the single Academies model funding agreement to bring it in line with the Free Schools model funding agreement in preventing Academies from teaching pseudoscience and to require the teaching of evolution.

BHA Head of Public Affairs Pavan Dhaliwal commented, «We very much welcome the fact that the proposed national curriculum will include the teaching of evolution in primary schools for the first time, and the strength of teaching around the scientific method.

«In Alabama, a state PAC recently went on the air with an ad attacking one of the Republican gubernatorial candidates for supporting the teaching of evolution in schools and for saying that parts of the Bible aren't true.

Apart from the controversy over Emmanuel College Gateshead a couple of years ago it simply isn't an issue here — we don't have the same brand of vocal Christianity here, we don't have a written constitution that can be used for court challenges over the issue and we don't have a long history of battles over the teaching of evolution.