Teaching Creationism As Science Now Banned In Britain's Schools

sandbagger sends this news from io9: In what's being heralded as a secular triumph, the U.K. government has banned the teaching of creationism as science in all existing and future academies and free schools. The new clauses, which arrived with very little fanfare last week, state that the "requirement for every academy and free school to provide a broad and balanced curriculum in any case prevents the teaching of creationism as evidence based theory in any academy or free school." So, if an academy or free school teaches creationism as scientifically valid, it's breaking the funding agreement to provide a "broad and balanced curriculum." ... In addition to the new clauses, the UK government clarified the meaning of creationism, reminding everyone that it's a minority view even within the Church of England and the Catholic Church.

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Re:Laws of Physics have become Heresy?

[JeremyConnell]

Energy is like money, in the sense that you also need an Engineer to make stuff with it, otherwise you would just be making garbage. The action of nature is to destroy all the cool stuff we make. All of it. For Free. That is the 2nd Law, and it conflicts directly with Evolution. His creations have some interesting real-world features that we aren't clever enough to reproduce. We made some interesting but quite poisonous stuff, but we wiped about most of nature in the process. Darwin = White Supremacist. Man != God.