The Scopes Strategy: Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote Anti-Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools

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The Scopes Strategy: Creationists Try New Tactics to Promote Anti-Evolutionary Teaching in Public Schools 
Under the guise of "academic freedom" creationists are co-opting some old heroes of the fight to teach evolution in the classroom for their anti-science campaign 
By Lauri Lebo   February 28, 2011
Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=scopes-creationism-education

...With 60 percent of U.S. public high school biology teachers are already shying away from evolution in the classroom, according to the results of a recent Pennsylvania State University survey, these anti-evolution bills send a warning message to ambivalent teachers to avoid the subject...

...Forty years after Scopes was found guilty for teaching evolution, he mused about an alternative outcome for his case if it had gone to the Supreme Court: "The Butler Act was an effort on the part of a religious group, the fundamentalists, to impose by law their religious beliefs on the rest of society. Our Founding Fathers, acquainted with the bloody religious wars in Europe, had written into the Constitution the right of religious freedom and had further provided, by means of the doctrine of the separation of church and state, that no religious group should control or unduly influence any arm of secular government. I believe that had we reached the Supreme Court we would have been victorious on this issue."  ...



Alex's comment:  Religious (including Christian) fundamentalism has been hampering human enlightenment for centuries, and is continuing to do so relentlessly!  It is our responsibility to guard against the harm that has been done, being done, and will be done by Christian fundamentalists to humanity.
基督原教旨主義者破壞人類啟蒙及科學教育永不言倦！基督原教旨主義者，你們傷害我們（啟蒙人類），要到幾時呢？