Mont. Public School Had No Business Sending Kids To Creationist Attraction
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Please Think Of The Children: Mont. Public School Had No Business Sending Kids To Creationist Attraction
by Rob Boston in Wall of Separation
You might have read yesterday about Americans United’s latest victory. It’s one I’m especially pleased to see: Officials at a public school in Glendive, Mont., were going to send third-graders on a field trip to a local spot run by creationists. AU’s attorneys put a stop to that.
The facility in question is called the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum, but I have too much respect for real museums to use that term for it. In this post, I will refer to it as the “Creationism Indoctrination Center” (CIC).
The CIC is run by an entity called the Foundation Advancing Creation Truth. ...its website http://www.creationtruth.org/
Also check out “What We Believe,” which is essentially the CIC’s statement of faith. It’s all here: six-day creation, the Book of Genesis is literally true, there was a worldwide flood, etc. See, that’s how you know you’re not dealing with a real science museum here. Real science museums don’t have statements of faith.
... The CIC’s fundamentalist mission could not be clearer. Yet, remarkably, officials at a public school thought it would be just peachy to send third-graders from Lincoln Elementary School to this place. School officials admitted that they have been sponsoring field trips to the CIC for the past several years.
The school principal, John Larsen, told the Billings Gazette that the kids are given an edited, “secular” version of the standard tour that doesn’t contain references to religion. But the museum’s director admitted to the Gazette that even during his so-called “secular” tours he presents creationist teachings, ...
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