On Christmas Eve eve (i.e. Tuesday), there was an article in the paper reporting on a survey that said 73% of science teachers agreed creationism should be discussed alongside evolution in science classes. Of course we immediately got some arrogant blustering from dear old Richard Dawkins, who is reported to have said it is a "national disgrace" and that we are "failing to in our duty to children if we staff our schools with teachers who are this ignorant - or this stupid."
First of all it is shades of emperor's new clothes, in that anyone who disagrees with Prof. Dawkins is either ignorant or stupid. Secondly, it really does illustrate that people like him are running scared of those who actually believe in a God who created the universe. If this notion is so ridiculous, as he would have us believe, then let it fade away by itself,as surely it must.
But then again, maybe there is something in it. And that's why he's so against open discussion in schools - people might realise there is a reasonable alternative worldview to his.
I got for Christmas the book Creation or Evolution - Do we have to choose? by Denis Alexander, a senior scientist. I'll let you know what he says.
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