Darwin latest target of DUP as creationists challenge evolution
"A senior DUP Assemblyman has pressed for creationism to be taught alongside evolution in classrooms across the North. Mervyn Storey, who chairs the Stormont education committee, said his "ideal" would be the removal of evolutionary teaching from the curriculum altogether. "This is not about removing anything from the classroom, although that would probably be the ideal for me, but this is about us having equality of access to other views as to how the world came into existence and that I think is a very, very important issue for many parents in Northern Ireland."
This is the latest in a number of interventions by Mr Storey on the issue. In June last year, the North Antrim Assembly man made a similar call during a sitting of the Assembly Education Committee, when he pressed Ms Ruane to "ensure that scientific explanations, other than Darwinian evolution, are taught in schools as scientific explanations". Despite numerous requests, the DUP has declined to comment on the matter.
Mr Storey has also weighed in to the ongoing dispute regarding the age of the Giant's Causeway, Co Antrim. Mr Storey, among others, has called for the proposed visitors' centre to display not just accepted geological data, but also the creationist argument that the distinctive rock formation is only 6,000 years old. "The problem to date has been that we only have a narrow interpretation from an evolutionary point of view as to how these particular stones were formed," he said last year."
What a fucking idiot. Although the argument of being allowed to experience numerous viewpoints when learning any subject is a sound one the idea of creationism in a science class is absurd. The creationist stance on most scientific debates is utter bullshit and belongs in a religion or creative writing class. I never actually realised that the hardline Christian Unionist groups were so backward, I knew they were backward in their attitudes towards homosexuality and stuff but I had always credited them with a certain amount of intelligence.
"A senior DUP Assemblyman has pressed for creationism to be taught alongside evolution in classrooms across the North. Mervyn Storey, who chairs the Stormont education committee, said his "ideal" would be the removal of evolutionary teaching from the curriculum altogether. "This is not about removing anything from the classroom, although that would probably be the ideal for me, but this is about us having equality of access to other views as to how the world came into existence and that I think is a very, very important issue for many parents in Northern Ireland."
This is the latest in a number of interventions by Mr Storey on the issue. In June last year, the North Antrim Assembly man made a similar call during a sitting of the Assembly Education Committee, when he pressed Ms Ruane to "ensure that scientific explanations, other than Darwinian evolution, are taught in schools as scientific explanations". Despite numerous requests, the DUP has declined to comment on the matter.
Mr Storey has also weighed in to the ongoing dispute regarding the age of the Giant's Causeway, Co Antrim. Mr Storey, among others, has called for the proposed visitors' centre to display not just accepted geological data, but also the creationist argument that the distinctive rock formation is only 6,000 years old. "The problem to date has been that we only have a narrow interpretation from an evolutionary point of view as to how these particular stones were formed," he said last year."
What a fucking idiot. Although the argument of being allowed to experience numerous viewpoints when learning any subject is a sound one the idea of creationism in a science class is absurd. The creationist stance on most scientific debates is utter bullshit and belongs in a religion or creative writing class. I never actually realised that the hardline Christian Unionist groups were so backward, I knew they were backward in their attitudes towards homosexuality and stuff but I had always credited them with a certain amount of intelligence.
was created by the receding waters of the flood four thousand years ago.. Which I take it is part of these ravings by the DUP?