FFRF halts creationism teaching in Kansas City

[NeoGreen]

https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/31610-ffrf-halts-creationism-teaching-in-kansas-city

FFRF halts creationism teaching in Kansas City
January 31, 2018

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has stopped an unscientific middle school science teacher from peddling creationist myth to his students.

A seventh-grade science teacher at Smith-Hale Middle School in Kansas City, Mo., was reportedly teaching creationism. One of his unit tests included questions intended to cast doubt upon evolution and our current understanding of the age of the Earth. An example of a problematic question:

There is no evidence that dinosaurs and humans may have co-existed (his accepted answer: false).

Another one asked:

Catastrophe supports sudden species appearance and a younger Earth (his accepted answer: true).

Such questions provide support for creationist beliefs over accepted scientific standards. Teaching creationism or any of its offshoots, such as intelligent design, in a public school is unlawful, because creationism is not based in fact, FFRF informed the school district.

“Courts have routinely found that such teachings are religious, despite many new and imaginative labels given to the alternatives,” FFRF Legal Fellow Chris Line wrote to Hickman Mills C-1 School District Superintendent Yolanda Cargile earlier this month. “The Supreme Court struck down teaching of ‘scientific creationism’ in public schools. Federal courts consistently reject creationism and its ilk in the public schools.”

Emphasis added.

[Ernesto]

1. "A seventh-grade science(?) teacher" WTF?

[guillaumeb]

2. #8