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 Send to email | Is it constitutional to teach Schönborn in biology class? in Policy and Politics |  By Thoughts
el 04-Aug-2008 | Digging for something else, I encounter Kathryn Jean Lopez arguing with an emailer about curriculum. The emailer objects to an earlier comment, where Ms. Lopez allowed that she's "the Discovery Institute's patsy" at NRO, but "I don't want public schools reading Cardinal Shönborn's tract on creation and evolution." In response, K-Lo:
if Baton Rouge wants freshman reading his book as part of some class or activity, that would be ridiculous to consider unconstitutional. Ridiculous? The book is Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith, a work of Catholic theology. In what 9th grade class is that conceivably appropriate? Surely not biology since it isn't, and doesn't purport to be, a biology text.
Among the gross errors in the book, it claims:
If it is true that everything developed from one first seed, then there ought to be innumerable transitional stages, but noone has yet discovered any of them. The Cardinal has apparently never heard of fossils. I mean, the usual creationist plaint is that there should be more transitional fossils than we have, but to claim that none exist at all is simply absurd. Tiktaalik is a famous recent find, but Australopithecus finds are pretty well known, and it's trivial to show transitional fossils in the evolution of the features of modern horses. This is the sort of claim that actually makes students dumber, by giving them false information, and closing their eyes to the possibility of new information.
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