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I'm not sure education counts as an entirely political issue. It's obviously an area that interests the HN community quite a lot - there's a bias towards scien

I'm not sure education counts as an entirely political issue. It's obviously an area that interests the HN community quite a lot - there's a bias towards science and engineering here, and everybody interested in those fields should find the teaching of creationism in a scientific context to be abhorrent. So I think it probably warrants discussion when the education system adopts policies which are actively hostile to the fields many of us are involved in (or in this case, when there's a push back against it).

arethuza 12y ago
To be honest, I suspect this counts as a political issue in the US and isn't one in the UK. As this is a US dominated site I can sort of see why people don't want it debated here as it'll just upset people - which it appears to have done. Ironically, religion doesn't play a very large part in day the day political life in the UK even though most of the country has an official established religion.
- tptacek 12y ago
  No, the problem isn't that it will "upset people" in the US. Virtually none of the readers of HN in the US see this issue as controversial.
PPLwynSPFJ5p 12y ago
And what exactly has evolution got to do with Science and Engineering? Name one advance in your own field that has been made by an evolutionist? And why do you find the teaching of creationism in a scientific context abhorrent? I think you are mistakenly confusing or conflating the theology with the science. The latter is based on empirical evidence, research, and peer reviewed papers, and as such cannot be disputed even by you. Science classes are for the teaching of science, not origins (especially not alleged 'evolutionary' origins).