British Tories pledge to stop creationism in school

by cofty 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  cofty

  Stick pins in my eyeballs or vote Conservative? Its a difficult dilemma.

  However with a general election on the horizon Michael Gove the shadow education secretary has just gone and added to my angst. In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr yesterday he said...

  "fundamentalist groups who taught in a way that undermined democratic values would be challenged, and if necessary, closed down...

  To my mind you cannot have a school which teaches creationism... And one thing that we will make absolutely clear is that you can not have schools that are set up which teach people things which are clearly at varience with what we know to be scientific fact."

  OMG I find myself agreeing with a Tory MP! I need to write to Ed Balls and see if he will make the same promise now that the reverend Tony Blair has been put out to pasture.
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  SacrificialLoon

  What sort of bizzaro conservatives do you have over there? Ours visit museums with humans riding dinosaurs.
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  cofty

  Interesting cultural difference. If David Cameron was photographed frolicking at a creationist museum it would be politically damaging.

  Its actually getting increasingly difficult to tell the main parties apart from each other.

  It was Tony Blair who promoted faith schools, wealthy christians like Ed Vardy, a northern car salesman, quickly poured millions into setting up schools that are allowed to play fast and loose with the curriculum. Richard Dawkins interviewed one of their science teachers in his programme "The Root of all Evil" (which still hasn't found an outlet in the USA) He admitted to being a young earth creationist - aaaarrrgh

  The policy is starting to backfire with the rapid rise of muslim schools, I suspect this is the greater concern of Mr Gove and his Daily Mail reading followers
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  Gerard

  Re: British Tories pledge to stop creationism in school

  
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  zzaphod

  That`s nothing, Labour will have everyone studying the koran!

  Regards

  Paul UK
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  SirNose586

  Now if all us Yanks could have the same kind of leadership on that level here, we'd be in good shape.
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  nelly136

  theres nothing to choose from, liberal arnt even on the map and the only sure way to get rid of labour is to vote conservative.

  we're gonna be taxed to the necks for the next whoknowshowmany years to make up for the mess we're in.

  pass the pins cofty.
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  slimboyfat

  Stick pins or vote Tory? Let's not be hasty! There are other options, even for those exiled south of the border and unable to vote SNP.
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  cantleave

  What does Anne Widdcombe think of that?
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  slimboyfat

  Anne Widdecombe is a Catholic, they don't believe in creationism. They are too busy concealing abuse among the clergy, demeaning women, persecuting homosexuals, and insisting people expose themselves to AIDS rather than use a condom.