A map of creationism taught in schools

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

A map showing where creationism is allowed to be taught by public schools in the US:

State by state breakdown:

Arizona: As many as 15 schools that teach creationism may be participating in the state’s tax credit scholarship program for disabled children or children attending under-performing schools. (Arizona has not released a list of private schools that have received students on this scholarship.)

Arkansas: Responsive Education Solutions operates two campuses in Arkansas that use creationist curricula. (See Texas)

Colorado: At least eight schools in Douglas County teach creationism while participating in the Douglas County Scholarship Program

Florida: At least 164 schools teach creationism while participating in the state’s tax credit scholarship programs for disabled children and children from low-income families.

Georgia: At least 34 schools teach creationism while participating in the state’s tax credit scholarship program for disabled children.

Indiana: At least 37 schools teach creationism while participating in the state’s voucher program for children from low-income families.

Louisiana: The Louisiana Science Education Act of 2008 allows teachers to use “supplemental textbooks and other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner,” specifically theories regarding “evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning”—in effect, allowing creationist material inside classroom. It’s no coincidence that the Discovery Institute, a creationist think tank that provides such “supplemental textbooks,” helped write the bill, which the American Association for the Advancement of Science described as an “assault against scientific integrity.”

Ohio: At least 20 schools teach creationism while participating in a tax credit scholarship program for children in under performing public schools.

Oklahoma: At least five schools teach creationism while participating in a tax credit scholarship program for disabled children.

Tennessee: A 2012 state law, like Louisiana's, permits public school teachers to teach the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses” of theories that can “cause controversy,” specifically citing evolution, global warming, and cloning, thereby providing legal cover for teachers who want to forward creationist pseudoscience.

Texas: The state’s largest charter program, Responsive Ed, receives $82 million in taxpayer money each year, but that hasn't stopped its schools from adopting a creationist curriculum that seriously misrepresents the science of evolution. These materials wrongly portray the fossil record and the age of Earth as scientifically controversial, assert that there is a lack of “transitional fossils,” and claim evolution is non-testable.

Utah: At least five schools teach creationism while participating in a tax-credit scholarship program for disabled children.

Washington, D.C.: At least three schools teach creationism while participating in a tax-credit scholarship program for children from low-income families.

Wisconsin: At least 15 schools teach creationism while participating in a Milwaukee or Racine voucher programs.

An awesome quote from the Republican Governor of Louisiana (who also holds an advance degree in biology) on the topic and included in the article: "We have got to stop being the Stupid party!"

Full article here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/creationism_in_public_schools_mapped_where_tax_money_supports_alternatives.html

Nice to see my state in the clear!

Edited January 28, 2014 by OnMyWayID

[GandD 5,966]

Wow, none in KY? That's very surprising to me. Go KY!!

[GandD 5,966]

Oh, and of course that's because we don't have charter schools. TN and LA seem to have just said F it.

[Novembro 1,763]

My home state reppin' the sh*t. I can wholeheartedly say that no teacher I ever had in TN pushed this nonsense.

[NickD 203]

Ha, I believe that God created us just one second ago with memories of the past and creating all these old bones and ancient stuff in the process in just one instant.

Let me hear your arguments to disprove this belief.

All I know is those with a strong belief believe they are dead right, and everybody else is dead wrong.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Shameful.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Ha, I believe that God created us just one second ago with memories of the past and creating all these old bones and ancient stuff in the process in just one instant.

Let me hear your arguments to disprove this belief.

All I know is those with a strong belief believe they are dead right, and everybody else is dead wrong.

Well.. Its as good as any argument you will find on the faith side *thumbs up* - if we are going to choose to live in the land of make beleive here is something else as equally likely and more entertaining:

I have a beagle named Porthos but really her name is grnopthapath (and a few letters that require 4 dimensions) she is from the planet Nebulon 7 here on Earth to prepare for a documentary on the great donut migration set to take place in the next 50 years. Most Nebulons are betting on the Cinnamon swirls to become self aware first but I have my money on the lemon filled.

[GandD 5,966]

Well.. Its as good as any argument you will find on the faith side *thumbs up* - if we are going to choose to live in the land of make beleive here is something else as equally likely and more entertaining:

I have a beagle named Porthos but really her name is grnopthapath (and a few letters that require 4 dimensions) she is from the planet Nebulon 7 here on Earth to prepare for a documentary on the great donut migration set to take place in the next 50 years. Most Nebulons are betting on the Cinnamon swirls to become self aware first but I have my money on the lemon filled.

I'm currently in the Cinnamon swirl camp myself. If you have any literature to persuade me over to the Lemon Filled side, I may be interested.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

I'm currently in the Cinnamon swirl camp myself. If you have any literature to persuade me over to the Lemon Filled side, I may be interested.

The lemon filled and Cinnamon swirl camps have a lot in common.. The Bear Claw people - they have GOT to go.

[GandD 5,966]

Oh don't get me started on those guys.

[Pooky 3,854]

Well.. Its as good as any argument you will find on the faith side *thumbs up* - if we are going to choose to live in the land of make beleive here is something else as equally likely and more entertaining:

I have a beagle named Porthos but really her name is grnopthapath (and a few letters that require 4 dimensions) she is from the planet Nebulon 7 here on Earth to prepare for a documentary on the great donut migration set to take place in the next 50 years. Most Nebulons are betting on the Cinnamon swirls to become self aware first but I have my money on the lemon filled.

I'm currently in the Cinnamon swirl camp myself. If you have any literature to persuade me over to the Lemon Filled side, I may be interested.

The lemon filled and Cinnamon swirl camps have a lot in common.. The Bear Claw people - they have GOT to go.

Meanwhile, no-one is paying attention to the Jam Doughnut folks ... and we like it that way.