…and this time it’s the creationist / ‘intelligent’ design brigade.
The story over at the BBC discusses the view of a chemistry teacher at the Blue Coats School in Liverpool. He promotes the preaching of Intelligent design to school pupils.
Understandably, the Department for Education and Skills thinks the teacher’s ideas are not appropriate for class.
He is quoted by the BBC as saying:
“There’s a sense that if you criticise Darwin then you must be some kind of religious nut”
Did you spot the straw-man argument?
If you criticise Darwin, you may well be a practicing scientist looking for verifiable evidence to prove or refute one of the claims of The origin of species according to natural selection (this is the method of investigation by which we define science).
Whereas if you practice preaching Intelligent Design, you may well be a religious nut.
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