{"id":1639,"date":"2008-10-03T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2008-10-03T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T19:51:39","slug":"we-should-discuss-creationsism-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"We should discuss creationism in the classroom?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Michael Reiss says. He&#8217;s a former teacher with PhD in evolutionary biology, now director of education at the Royal Society in the U.K.: &#8220;What Reiss believes is that when the issue of creationism or intelligent design is raised in the class room (and he expects it to be raised increasingly frequently) the teacher should discuss it as an alternative &#8216;worldview&#8217; but show why it is not a scientific theory and why evolution is a scientific theory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/news\/blog\/2008\/09\/the_ba_festival_of_science_we.html\">More at the <em>Nature<\/em> Web site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Michael Reiss says. He&#8217;s a former teacher with PhD in evolutionary biology, now director of education at the Royal Society in the U.K.: &#8220;What Reiss believes is that when the issue of creationism or intelligent design is raised in the class room (and he expects it to be raised increasingly frequently) the teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}