‘God made science': Louisiana teachers are literally using the Bible as science textbooks in public

[kpete]

“We will read in Genesis and them [sic] some supplemental material debunking various aspects of evolution from which the students will present,” said Shawna Creamer, a science teacher at Airline High School in an email to Principal Jason Rowland.

A teacher at Caddo Parish schools wrote a newspaper column saying that her job is to present both evolution and creationism.

“God made science,” wrote fifth-grade teacher Charlotte Hinson.

While one parent complained to the principal that another teacher Cindy Tolliver, was “pushing her twisted religious beliefs onto the class,” another praised biology teacher Michael Stacy because he “discussed evolution and creationism in a full spectrum of thought.”

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[Fred Sanders]

1. Maria Law is the real and present danger to secular America...how much more evidence is needed!?

These "teachers" are not teachers, they are religious propagandists.

Getting grade school kids to consider both evolution and myth and then having to choose one "theory" using both faith and reason...it is child abuse.

Maria herself would weep.

[rurallib]

3. "Maria Law" - excellent

[RKP5637]

2. One step forward for mankind and now ten backward. Damn, these people are amazingly

ignorant and uneducated.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Disgusting.

Our world would have been so much better off if these primitive mythologies had just fizzled out long ago.

[NightWatcher]

5. "God" is the answer you give when you don't know the science

What's thunder?
God moving furniture in heaven.
Actually it's when the heat from lightning clashes with the surrounding cold air...
So it's not god moving furniture?

[Rex]

6. How can a faith based belief system be used to teach science?

Faith is just the opposite of the scientific method, I really cannot believe this is 2015 and kids are taught stupid shit like, "God made science'.

Don't question it, just believe it. Stupid.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. If so, *HE* made it to repair the mess *HE* made with creation.

[MisterP]

11. here's a big corrected mistake

[procon]

8. That would explain why Louisiana lags far behind other states in education,

and ranks 3rd from the bottom in teaching science.


"This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

[MisterP]

9. oh, I don't think they want anything that might be a gateway to Augustinianism and Platonism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_theology

[KamaAina]

10. And of course Booby is cool with this

despite holding an Ivy League degree in biology.

[snooper2]

12. "and them some" This is what happens when you let stupid people teach

[Johonny]

13. Of course if she said "I wanted to show where creationism fails as a science" I bet Michael tune

would be different. They're always okay teaching creationism until you lambaste it on scientific grounds. Then they start crying about hurting their belief system. The full spectrum is... creationism is a waste of time in a science class room and has been for over hundred years.

[Initech]

14. God it's 2015, why are we still arguing this crap?

There's a reason why we can't have nice things.