{"id":59,"date":"2004-11-13T16:23:23","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2004-11-13T16:23:23","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T16:23:23","slug":"pennsylvania-community-mandates-the-teaching-of-creationism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania community mandates the teaching of creationism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what is believed to be a first in the U.S., a school district in Pennsylvania has declared that teachers <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EVOLUTION_DEBATE?SITE=VANOV&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">must include<\/a> the teaching of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionbioscience.org\/evolution\/nhmag.html\">intelligent design<\/a> alongside evolution in science classes.<br \/>\nIntelligent design is a form of creationism, based on religious beliefs about God as the creator of the world and all that is in it. It&#8217;s linked to some other religious beliefs such as the literal truth of the earth being created in seven 24-hours days, and other fundamentalist beliefs. But it&#8217;s not science, and there is no scientific evidence for the idea. Nor should there be, since religion is a matter of faith and scientific evidence is irrelevant. But setting religion alongside science in classrooms is a dangerous breach of the wall between church and state. The ACLU is reviewing the case.<br \/>\nI strongly believe that if religious people want religious schools, they should have them. But religious teaching should not be funded with public money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is believed to be a first in the U.S., a school district in Pennsylvania has declared that teachers must include the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution in science classes. Intelligent design is a form of creationism, based on religious beliefs about God as the creator of the world and all that is in it. It&#8217;s linked to some other religious beliefs such as the literal truth of the earth being created in seven 24-hours days, and other fundamentalist beliefs. But it&#8217;s not science, and there is no scientific evidence for the idea. Nor should there be, since <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=59\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}