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From the following website:
"It is a simple fact that America was substantially racist in the 1920's. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the secularist movement of the day quickly espoused Darwin's racist evolutionary theories. Educational theorists such as John Dewey, playing off the fallout from the Scopes trial, were able to make Darwin's theory the mantra of public education philosophy.
We are now (hopefully) in the post-racist period in America. Thinking people cringe at Darwin's hatred for the African peoples. Thinking people view it as a disgrace that his racist theories are still being taught in the public schools.
Furthermore, serious scholarship now laughs at Darwin and his theory of natural selection on the scientific level. Stuart A. Kauffman (a premier scholar outside the circles of our schools of education) writes: "Natural selection, operating on variations which are random with respect to usefulness, appears a slim force for order in a chaotic world. ... Our legacy from Darwin, powerful as it is, has fractures as its foundations" (p.643, The Origins of Order, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
It just makes sense that theory as fundamentally flawed, and blatantly racist, as is Darwin's theory of evolution (particularly as it relates to origin and natural selection), has no place being foisted upon the youth of our land today.
I say up with education; up with truth; up with sound scholarship; but down with racism, and definitely down with Darwin. It is time for a change. It is time to "Out the 'Darweenies.'"
http://www.goodschools.com/darwin.htm
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From the following website:
"It is a simple fact that America was substantially racist in the 1920's. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the secularist movement of the day quickly espoused Darwin's racist evolutionary theories. Educational theorists such as John Dewey, playing off the fallout from the Scopes trial, were able to make Darwin's theory the mantra of public education philosophy.
We are now (hopefully) in the post-racist period in America. Thinking people cringe at Darwin's hatred for the African peoples. Thinking people view it as a disgrace that his racist theories are still being taught in the public schools.
Furthermore, serious scholarship now laughs at Darwin and his theory of natural selection on the scientific level. Stuart A. Kauffman (a premier scholar outside the circles of our schools of education) writes: "Natural selection, operating on variations which are random with respect to usefulness, appears a slim force for order in a chaotic world. ... Our legacy from Darwin, powerful as it is, has fractures as its foundations" (p.643, The Origins of Order, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
It just makes sense that theory as fundamentally flawed, and blatantly racist, as is Darwin's theory of evolution (particularly as it relates to origin and natural selection), has no place being foisted upon the youth of our land today.
I say up with education; up with truth; up with sound scholarship; but down with racism, and definitely down with Darwin. It is time for a change. It is time to "Out the 'Darweenies.'"
http://www.goodschools.com/darwin.htm
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