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Fundamentalist teachers are teaching mythology as scientific fact at a state-funded school in Gateshead. Emmanuel College, one of the Tories' City Technology Colleges, is supposed to be a beacon school with high standards yet young people there are taught that a being known as 'God' made the universe in six days and that this folk tale has more credibility than theories based on observable evidence. A representative for the Department for Education and Skills told The Guardian What schools need to do is teach the national curriculum in an impartial way. Personal doctrines should not override anything that should be taught in the curriculum.
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school's creationists preach value of biblical story over evolution, The Guardian March 9th 2002.
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1: Posted by: Ted Malone | August 26, 2003 3:19 PM
Creationism has as much scientific support as does the 'big bang' and evolution. No scientist was present to observe or can recreate the details of the start of the world - so from a scientific perspective it is all theory or myth. New scientific examination of the details of life reveal that the so called 'simple cell' is actually a very complex entity that includes a very complex system of manufacturing. To believe that the cell emerged by evolution really takes a greater leap of faith than believing that a being who calls Himself 'God' started the whole process and has given us a record of that process.
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