Are Global Warming Denialists the New Creationists?
- Claiming to oppose ‘scientific dogma’ climate change foes seek to ‘teach the controversy’ in schools.
- Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets
Are Lauri Lebo, Religion Dispatches<>
Last week (Feb 28-Mar 6), the New York Times called attention to an apparent new strategy in the creationism intelligent design movement.
Since Judge John E. Jones ruled the concept of intelligent design as revamped creationism in 2005’s Kitzmiller v. Dover trial, pro-ID organizations like the Discovery Institute have been lobbying state lawmakers to pass legislation advocating a “teach the controversy” approach to science education. In the past couple years, they have gotten legislators to introduce bills in states such as Missouri, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana advocating for academic freedom to teach “the controversy” regarding scientific issues like evolutionary theory. (Note: In the scientific community, there is no controversy over the reality of evolutionary processes.) So far, only Louisiana has taken the bait and passed an academic freedom law.
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Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets, Leslie Kaufman, New York Times
Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.
