Creationism

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• Turquie : des livres scolaires antisémites font scandale
  24 octobre 2012, par siawi3

  Une série de livres destinés aux écoles primaires fait scandale ces jours-ci en Turquie. La théorie de l’évolution est de plus en plus contestée en Turquie et le gouvernement de l’AKP, parti que les kémalistes historiques considèrent comme islamiste et anti-laïc, tend à favoriser l’enseignement religieux.
  « Le système éducatif devient réactionnaire, estime Mehmet Aydogan, représentant d’une organisation de professeurs qui a exigé le retrait des manuels. Les imams enseignent la religion dans les écoles. Ces livres discréditent des artistes et des savants mondialement reconnus et poussent les étudiants à penser contre la science. »

• ex-Yugoslavia: a philosopher, a biologist and a mathematician speak
  12 October 2010, by siawi2
  on the erosion of secularism
  Seminar “threatening signs of fundamentalism – feminist and democratic answers”
  Lecture, Jastrebac Lino Veljak, philosopher
  Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb In the middle ages there was the principle of organic unity  (...)
• UK: A call to ban creationism in British schools
  12 October 2011, by siawi3

  Creationism and ‘intelligent design’ are not scientific theories, but they are portrayed as scientific theories by some religious fundamentalists who attempt to have their views promoted in publicly-funded schools. There should be enforceable statutory guidance that they may not be presented as scientific theories in any publicly-funded school of whatever type.

• Attack on Biology
  28 June 2007, by siawi

  Clearly science needs close and ongoing scrutiny, and in the past decade or two there has been a healthy boom in science studies and criticism. Scholars such as Evelyn Fox Keller, Sandra Harding, Emily Martin and Donna Haraway have offered useful critiques of the biases and ethnocentric metaphors that can skew everything from hypothesis formation to data collection techniques. Feminists (one of the authors included) have deconstructed medicine and psychology for patriarchal biases; left-leaning biologists such as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin and Ruth Hubbard have exposed misapplications of biology to questions of social policy. However, contemporary antibiologists decry a vast range of academic pursuits coming from very different theoretical corners — from hypotheses about the effects of genes and hormones, to arguments about innate cognitive modules and grammar, to explorations of universal ritual form and patterns of linguistic interaction. All these can be branded as “essentialist,” hence wrongheaded and politically mischievous. Paradoxically, assertions about universal human traits and tendencies are usually targeted just as vehemently as assertions about differences: There are no differences between groups, seems to be the message, but there is no sameness among them either.

• Les dangers du créationnisme dans l’éducation
  24 juin 2007
  Doc. 11297
  8 juin 2007
  Les dangers du créationnisme dans l’éducation
  Rapport
  Commission de la culture, de la science et de l’éducation
  Rapporteur : M. Guy LENGAGNE, France, Groupe socialiste
  Résumé
  La théorie de l’évolution est attaquée par des  (...)
• Pakistan: Superstorm Sandy and God’s wrath
  9 November 2012, by siawi3

  Every time death and destruction result after the ‘normal’ weather pattern is disrupted and hurricanes, typhoons and storms occur or vigorous seismic activity takes place that results in earthquakes and tsunamis, our clerics and even many professionals and intelligentsia describe them as proof of God Almighty inflicting punishment and pain on humanity gone astray. Once upon a time, epidemics such as the plague and smallpox were considered scourges of God who wanted to chastise human beings.
  In 2005 when a major earthquake hit Azad Kashmir and northern Pakistan and several hundred lives were lost, the reaction of the pious was that the Almighty was expressing His displeasure at Muslims who were not living their lives in accordance with Islam.

• A creationist system of science is not science at all
  12 June 2008
  [Published in: New York Times, June 7, 2008]
  Editorial
  The Cons of Creationism
  When it comes to science, creationists tend to struggle with reality. They believe, after all, that evolution by means of natural selection is false and that Earth is  (...)
• Opposition to creationist amusement park in Germany
  12 June 2008
  (Published by: Deutsche Welle, 4 June 2008)
  Creationist Theme Park Plan Stirs Up Locals
  A Swiss firm has announced plans to construct a “Genesis Land” in the Heidelberg area. But local politicians and theologians don’t like the prospect of  (...)
• USA: The religious right in climate science denial
  9 November 2012, by siawi3

  The religious right in the US backs GOP climate change denial because science also supports evolution against creationism.

• USA: Creationism and revisionist history threaten to invade our classrooms
  3 June 2013, by siawi3

  We have to stop state legislators from sneaking creationist and revisionist textbooks into public schools. The law allows non-science to be snuck into science classrooms by teachers who use supplemental materials to “critique” politically controversial (but not scientifically controversial) theories, including evolution and climate science.

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