More religious hypocrisy
The Archbishop of Canterbury has denounced the teaching of creationism in schools.
While this is A Good Thing™, the least he could do is have the strength of his own convictions. This is just another example of the two-faced[1] nature of religion to cherry-pick what it wants to promote and what it wants to conveniently ignore.
[1] Or is it three in the case of a certain monotheistic (sic) religion?
More over at Google News.
Edit: You have got to be kidding me (10 March 2006)
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, which oversees the development of the national curriculum, in effect guiding exam boards, said discussions of “intelligent design” or “creationism” could take place in science classes.
The National Curriculum Online website says for science at Key Stage 4 (GCSE level): “Students should be taught how scientific controversies can arise from different ways of interpreting empirical evidence (for example Darwin’s theory of evolution).”
Creationism has no place in the classroom (or anywhere else IMO) but if the ID proponents want it - fine: get some real evidence together to support your argument. Don’t rely on two conflicting narratives that were written in the bronze and iron ages and mistranslated to buggery over the most recent period of about 14-18 centuries.