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进化论重回堪萨斯：纽约时报社论(2000。8。4)
交者: ppttpp 于 August 04, 2000 16:52:15:
"地球的年龄有几十亿年。尽管堪萨斯州的教育委员会曾经蛮横地试图剥夺
学童们接受这一现代科学观念的权力，在该州，它还是会再一次达到这个
年龄。选民们把去年践踏全州科学教育标准，不准把进化论作为物种起源
和把大爆炸学说作为宇宙起源理论来教授的委员们赶出了教育委员会，
从而结束了他们的疯狂行径。这次选举是常识的胜利和这些用他们的宗教
狂热对学童们的教育造成危害的神创论者们的大挫败。"
。。。。。
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/editorial/04fri2.html
August 4, 2000
Kansas, Evolving
The earth is billions of years old, and
will again be so in Kansas, despite
reckless attempts by the State Board of
Education to deprive its children of modern
scientific thinking. Voters put an end to the
madness by expelling conservative board members who had gutted
statewide science standards last year to eliminate evolution as an
explanation of the origin of species and the Big Bang theory to explai
n the
start of the universe. The balloting was a triumph for common sense, a
nd
a resounding defeat for creationists whose religious zeal threatened t
o
imperil their schoolchildren's education.
Thanks to a 1987 United States Supreme Court decision, no state can
compel the teaching of creationism in its public schools. But last yea
r the
Kansas board took the opposite tack -- banishing evolution from its
standards and assessment tests, by a 6-to-4 vote.
In Tuesday's Kansas Republican primary, three of the six conservatives
responsible for that vote were defeated. The triumphant moderate
Republican nominees and their Democratic opponents in the general
election have pledged to return evolution and the Big Bang to the
standards tests, and will have the votes to do so.
The primary results send a strong message. Voters in the nation's
heartland will not stand to have their children's education hijacked b
y
those who would repudiate modern science in the name of religion. They
know full well that in today's world, their children would be left beh
ind. It
is a matter of natural selection.
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送交者: ppttpp 于 August 04, 2000 16:52:15:
"地球的年龄有几十亿年。尽管堪萨斯州的教育委员会曾经蛮横地试图剥夺
学童们接受这一现代科学观念的权力，在该州，它还是会再一次达到这个
年龄。选民们把去年践踏全州科学教育标准，不准把进化论作为物种起源
和把大爆炸学说作为宇宙起源理论来教授的委员们赶出了教育委员会，
从而结束了他们的疯狂行径。这次选举是常识的胜利和这些用他们的宗教
狂热对学童们的教育造成危害的神创论者们的大挫败。"
。。。。。
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/editorial/04fri2.html
August 4, 2000
Kansas, Evolving
The earth is billions of years old, and
will again be so in Kansas, despite
reckless attempts by the State Board of
Education to deprive its children of modern
scientific thinking. Voters put an end to the
madness by expelling conservative board members who had gutted
statewide science standards last year to eliminate evolution as an
explanation of the origin of species and the Big Bang theory to explai
n the
start of the universe. The balloting was a triumph for common sense, a
nd
a resounding defeat for creationists whose religious zeal threatened t
o
imperil their schoolchildren's education.
Thanks to a 1987 United States Supreme Court decision, no state can
compel the teaching of creationism in its public schools. But last yea
r the
Kansas board took the opposite tack -- banishing evolution from its
standards and assessment tests, by a 6-to-4 vote.
In Tuesday's Kansas Republican primary, three of the six conservatives
responsible for that vote were defeated. The triumphant moderate
Republican nominees and their Democratic opponents in the general
election have pledged to return evolution and the Big Bang to the
standards tests, and will have the votes to do so.
The primary results send a strong message. Voters in the nation's
heartland will not stand to have their children's education hijacked b
y
those who would repudiate modern science in the name of religion. They
know full well that in today's world, their children would be left beh
ind. It
is a matter of natural selection.
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/editorial/04fri2.html
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