Charles Haynes, senior scholar with the First Amendment Center, has posted and syndicated an excellent new column on the First Amendment’s prohibition of religious teaching in public schools — even when such teaching is not explicitly “religious.”
The column responds to a controversy reported in the Los Angeles Times over the “Spirituality for Kids,” program — [...]
Category Archives: Discourses
Haynes: “religion by any other name is still religion”
April 28, 2009 – 10:58 am
Why I don’t believe in “THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION”
January 26, 2009 – 12:15 pm
No, Virginia, “THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION” does not actually exist — at least not in science, anyway.
In a nutshell, I don’t believe in “THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION,” for the same reason that I don’t believe in Santa Clause:
Santa Clause does not really exist, except as a character in folk holiday traditions, crummy TV commercials, and [...]
Discourses (lexicon)
January 26, 2009 – 12:01 pm
For a new article here on Curricublog, “Why I don’t believe in “THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION,” I will need to use the word Discourse in a sense that’s understood in my field (Curriculum Studies) and in other fields of the social sciences and humanities — but a sense that is not so common in general [...]
