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News from the front lines

We have followers in Switzerland, as this Swiss news source explains. Apparently they're having a controversy over school textbooks like just about everyone else. (Not to be confused with Sweden's ban on creationism)

Speaking of bans, there has been some effort recently by school teachers to stop kids from using Wikipedia as a source for their assignments. Isn't that cruel?

Last week news broke concerning a kerfuffle over the Texas Education Agency and the resignation of the state's director of science curriculum, Chris Comer. Comer says she was pressured to resign as a result of a memo she sent out announcing a presentation by Barbara Forrest, a prominent opponent of intelligent design theory. In released documents agency officials said,

"Ms. Comer's e-mail implies endorsement of the speaker and implies that TEA endorses the speaker's position on a subject on which the agency must remain neutral."

I think we can expect Texas to come under fire soon from the anti-ID crowd over this one.

Also: The hexagonal stones of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland are being defended by creationists as the result of Noah's flood. AIG has an old article by geologist Tas Walker explaining a flood interpretation of the causeway.

Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:35AM by Registered CommenterDaniel James Devine in | CommentsPost a Comment

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