Hola.
En Colombia y en Latino America, hasta donde yo se, no se a
debatido publicamente el tema de la enseñanza de la Evolucion
o/y el Creacionismo. Les remito dos mensajes sobre el tema.
Ligia
Mensaje Uno-----------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 22:08:10 -0000
Reply-To: "Ian Pitchford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [evol-psych] Evolution and the Curriculum
Calvin Ostrum wrote regarding Sally Satel and PC, MD:
An article adapted from her book appeared in last months
Atlantic and can be had on line.
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2001/01/satel.htm
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Satel also seems to be connected to the Ethics and Public Policy Center. This
organisation held a "debate" in 1999 for journalists, ostensibly about the
Kansas School Board's decision, which actually became a seminar on how
journalists could assist Mr. Johnson and his colleagues. A tangled web...
Can the Kansas School Board
Decision Be Defended?
http://www.eppc.org/programs/evankansas.html
Phillip Johnson and Gregg Easterbrook
Moderated by Michael Cromartie,
Vice President and Director of the
Evangelical Studies Project
Held on September 21, 1999
Listen to a RealAudio* recording of the debate:
Johnson's Opening Remarks
http://www.eppc.org/ra/kansas_johnson.ram
Easterbrook's Opening Remarks
http://www.eppc.org/ra/kansas_easterbrook.ram
Question and Answers:
Part One
http://www.eppc.org/ra/kansas_conv1.ram
Part Two
http://www.eppc.org/ra/kansas_conv2.ram
Part Three
http://www.eppc.org/ra/kansas_conv3.ram
In August 1999, the Kansas Board of Education voted to delete virtually
any mention of evolutionary theory from the state's recommended science
curriculum and its standardized tests. The resulting firestorm was
difficult to
miss. This decision to omit macro-evolution from the lists of scientific
topics
which all students are expected to master has been followed by numerous
editorials and commentaries, almost all critical of the Kansas Board's
decision. Writing in The New Republic (September 13 & 20, 1999) Charles Lane
had this to say: "I don't think it's possible to be outraged enough by this
ludicrous decree . . . As The New York Times has reported, many Kansas school
districts will exercise their right to keep teaching evolution, a 'point of
view' (the Times' own amazingly gutless phrase) that is supported by a massive
body of material evidence . . ."
Writing in The Wall Street Journal (August 16, 1999), Phillip Johnson
offered a different perspective. He said: "[O]ne reason the science educators
panic at the sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the
implicit religious content in what they are teaching. An even more compelling
reason for keeping the lid on public discussion is that the official
neo-Darwinian theory is having serious trouble with the evidence . . . In
context, the Kansas action was a protest against enshrining a particular
worldview as a scientific fact and against making 'evolution' an exception to
the usual American tradition that the people have a right to disagree with the
experts. Take evolution away from the worldview promoters and return it to the
real scientific investigators, and a chronic social conflict will become an
exciting intellectual adventure."
Can the school board's ruling be somehow justified? This
presentation by
Mr. Johnson and the response by Mr. Easterbrook opens an important
conversation
about religion, law, science, and politics as it relates to the Kansas story.
Phillip Johnson
http://www.discovery.org/crsc/fellows/PhilJohnson/index.html graduated from
the
University of Chicago and Harvard Law School. He was a clerk for Chief Justice
Earl Warren of the United States Supreme Court and has taught law for thirty
years at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Darwin on
Trial, Reason in the Balance and Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on
Evolution, Law & Culture. He has been a frequent lecturer and debater on our
topic on university and college campuses throughout America.
Gregg Easterbrook http://www.tnr.com/masthead/easterbrook.html is a
senior editor of The New Republic and a contributing editor for The Atlantic
Monthly. He has also written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, and has
been a reporter and contributing editor for Newsweek and U.S. News & World
Report. He is the author of the nationally acclaimed A Moment on the Earth:
The
Coming Age of Environmental Optimism. His most recent book is Beside Still
Waters: Searching for Meaning in an Age ofDoubt. He is also a distinguished
fellow of the Fulbright Foundation.
Participants Included:
Hadley Arkes Amherst College
Patrick Glynn The Responsive Community
Gary Haugen International Justice Mission
Paul Klassen Sunrise Assisted Living
Terry Mattingly syndicated columnist
Robert Parker Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison
David Von Drehle The Washington Post
Larry Witham The Washington Times
Benjamin Wittes The Washington Post
Amy Schwartz The Washington Post
* RealAudio requires installation of the Real Player
which can be found at http://www.real.com .
Mensaje Dos-------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:42:46 -0000
Reply-To: "Ian Pitchford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [evol-psych] Evolution 'Controversial'
FOX NEWS
New Science Curriculum Incorporates Language Calling Evolution 'Controversial'
Thursday, February 8, 2001 By Bob Johnson
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The State Board of Education approved a new science
curriculum Thursday that includes a preface calling evolution "a controversial
theory."
The board approved the curriculum Thursday by a unanimous vote, despite pleas
from science teachers, college professors and others that the language
concerning evolution be removed.
"All you have to do is place a call to the state universities and you won't
find one professor who will call the theory of evolution controversial," said
David White, a science teacher at Bob Jones High School. "This subjects our
children to bad science and bad politics."
But State School Superintendent Ed Richardson said he had no problem with the
language in the preface.
Full text:
http://www.foxnews.com/national/020801/science_curriculum.sml
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