Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns

Chris_Keene writes in to let us know that the Prof. Michael Reiss, who recently caused a storm with comments about teaching creationism in schools, has resigned from his post as director of education at the Royal Society in the UK. This news coincides with word out of the Anglican church that it is ready to apologize to Charles Darwin, 150 years after it poured scorn on his theory of evolution by natural selection. "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church."

Comments

Re:He was NOT misquoted!

[JonathanBoyd]

Anyone who feels that creationism is not a misconception has no place in the direction of such an important scientific body as the Royal Society.

You're doing exactly what the media has done by misunderstanding him. He didn't say it was a misconception, he said it was a bigger more complicated issue. If it was a simple misconception, you could argue that a person's understanding of the scientific method was flawed. As par of a worldview, however, it is possible for someone to understand and be able to employ the scientific method in all areas, except for evolution because here their worldview take priority i.e. they are capable scientists and understand the satnce of scientists on the issue, but reach a different conclusion based on their worldview.

The trouble is that so many people assume that Creationist = can't do science, but the disagreement doesn't necessarily come down to an inability to 'do' science. In fact, your post is an example of the attitudes that prompted him to speak out in the first place.

Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout!

[x2A]

"Now stop trying to ruin my joke"

Woosh! Think your own joke went over your head *lol* fool!