WASHINGTON – A petition posted to the White House’s website to ban creationism and intelligent design in the classroom has gained thousands of signatures in just ten days. The petition was created on June 15th.
To cross the first threshold and be searchable within WhiteHouse.gov, a petition must reach 150 signatures within 30 days. To cross the second threshold and require a response, a petition must reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days.
The petition, now with over 36,746 signatures, aims to make the Obama Administration pursue a platform that would “ban the teachings of … conjectures that contradict Evolution.”
“Since Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of Evolution by Natural Selection,” the petition states, “scientists all around the world have found monumental amounts of evidence in favor of the theory, now treated as scientific fact by 99.9% of all scientists.
“Schools across the US are ‘teaching the controversy,’ including Creationism and Intelligent Design. Both of these so-called ‘theories’ have no basis in scientific fact, and have absolutely zero evidence pointing towards these conjectures. These types of loopholes in our education are partially to blame for our dangerously low student performances in math and science.”
Another petition, created June 22nd, aims to ban the teaching of evolution as fact, and mandate the teaching of creation in all public schools.
That petition has 163 signatures.
A new book by Dr. Stephen C. Meyer titled “Darwin’s Doubt” could well be the fuel for this level of concern.
I recently heard a radio interview of Meyer and did some perusing of online reviews & think I understand the level of concern by the present “scientific community”. This book could well be driving a stake in the heart of their world view. It will be interesting to see how this turmoil turns out.
“Politically correct science” needs to be dumped in favor of science. Obama needs to step back and let it be thrashed out, not politicized more than it is.