Council of Europe to vote on creationism next week

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's main human rights body will vote next week on a resolution opposing the teaching of creationist and intelligent design views in school science classes.

The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly will debate a resolution saying attacks on the theory of evolution were rooted "in forms of religious extremism" and amounted to a dangerous assault on science and human rights.

The resolution, on the agenda for October 4, says European schools should "resist presentation of creationist ideas in any discipline other than religion." It describes the "intelligent design" argument as an updated version of creationism.

Anne Brasseur, an Assembly member from Luxembourg who updated an earlier draft resolution, said the vote was due in June but was postponed because some members felt the original text amounted to an attack on religious belief.



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[Realityhack]

1. Hope they pass it n/t

[ladywnch]

2. and this is why Europe is going to leave us in the dust very soon

because as we make every move we can backward, they are moving forward.

[depakid]

4. They already are!

[fredrickdouglas]

6. Very Soon?

Heard of universal healthcare?
Free college?
Good mass transit?

Europe left the US in the dust 40 years ago.

If your metrics is who has the most millionaires, morons and missiles the US wins hands down.

But for everything else relevant to normal, everyday people, Europe has been handing us our asses for a loooong time.

[lapfog_1]

3. As I've posted about here in the last few months

I'm temporarily located in good old "red state" 'merca, complete with "W" stickers and fake bullet hole decals on brand new pickup trucks.

My niece came home from school (she is in 6th grade) and asked me to help with homework... which I was glad to do.

Somehow the topic of evolution came up (she is learning history and wants to be a paleontologist when she grows up)... and I started saying how evolution works and how we share over 98 percent of our genes with our closest animal relatives, the apes. She then told me that her homeroom teacher doesn't believe in evolution!

Jeebus! The dumbing down of 'merca continues... she is loaded up with homework that doesn't question or make science or history or geography interesting, but teaches to pass the next NCLB test. All the while, science is just so glossed over and dismissed. I so want to get her the f'k out of here into a good school somewhere where they make learning fun and teach real science instead of Kelly Bundy Skyance.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Just tell the teacher in her case she has 100% of the dna of apes.

Or maybe 100% of the dna of a slug.

[enid602]

5. fundies

Outlawing creationism and intelligent design in Europe will fit nicely into the fundies' scheme of things. Their various 'end of the world' and rapture films enerally feature an evil united European Government that brings on the tribulation. They call Europe the beast with 13 horns or some other stupid thing.