re: Next Up: Degrees In Flat Earth Studies And The Geocentric Model Of The Universe

Tony Whitson — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:20:38 GMT

Actually, the ICR degree program is up and running. The news is that a committee reporting to the Texas Board has recommended in favor of granting state approval of the program for a degree in Science Education, which presumably qualify graduates to be hired as science teachers. The Board needs to be put on notice that this could jeopardize recognition of its degree and teaching credentials by other states, and that it could put Texas in violation of the NCLB requirement to have a “Highly Qualified Teacher” in every classroom.

See curricublog.org/.../icr-nclb

re: Next Up: Degrees In Flat Earth Studies And The Geocentric Model Of The Universe

Neel — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:20:58 GMT

One of the great mysteries to me is why for fifteen-hundred years it was a sin punshable by ex-communication or death to study the word of God (the Bible, the Torah, the Koran ) unless you were properly ordained. But common people have been studying them for at least the last five-hundred years. And so new interpretations are prominent. Why would it be any different for those who know evolution to know what the other interpretors of life have to say on the origin of species.