Reply to Blair.
In a recent interview in the New Scientist magazine, Blair controversially downplayed the threat of creationism in our schools suggesting that he believes scientists should have better things to worry about. This arrogant & dismissive attitude is absolutely what we expect from this so called (soon to be ex), “leader” of the Labour Party – if he can causally belittle the concerns of some of the most respected academics in the country with such talk, what chance do the rest of us stand against his gross incompetence & stupidity?
The following is a selection of replies to this article, although first prize would have to go to this one from James Williams Falmer of the University of Sussex School of Education:
Combating Creationism
As a science education specialist and researcher into the issue of creationism teaching in schools, I am extremely disturbed by Prime Minister Tony Blair's dismissive attitude on the issue of creationist teaching in UK schools (4 November, p 51). To state that action would only be necessary should creationism become "the mainstream of the education system in this country" is naïve in the extreme. Action at that point is no action at all and would be too late...
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Lord save us from Blair, friend of the creationists
The Vardy schools in the northeast of England are state schools run by fundamentalist God botherers who believe that the Earth is only a few thousand years old, dinosaurs walked the planet alongside man and the theory of evolution is pernicious, blasphemous nonsense...