Sentences with phrase «teaching of evolution in schools»

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.
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.
There are laws that try and limit the teaching of evolution in school.
«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.
Just wait till this Governor starts going after gays, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and pro-choice advocates.
Yet people fighting the teaching of evolution in schools may seize on legitimate scientific disputes as reasons to dismiss the scientific theory altogether, Rosenau says.
Commenting on the panel and its critics, Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, which has campaigned successfully for the teaching of evolution in schools, objected to the «hijacking» of science for arguments about religion: for or against.
Until now, the organisation has focused on supporting the teaching of evolution in schools.
In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change education.
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