The United Kingdom’s very own hobgoblin Michael Gove has
given his dubious seal of approval to three creationist-led ‘free schools’,
once again proving that this world is beyond help.
For those not familiar with the UK’s
ongoing state of decay, free schools are just like any other school, except
they are not run by the local authority, opening the gates for any mad cult
with a warrant from their god to brainwash our children. Although religious schools are not a new idea
in this country, this news has reignited the scrutiny by the public of these
corrupt institutions.
Various news sources have naturally clamoured to either stir
or placate the issue, but the disaster at hand is fairly plain to see on two of
the new schools’ websites (one of them apparently doesn’t exist yet). While they both employ a relatively flexible
definition of creationism, they are confident in affirming the notion that
their own particular version of the “omnipotent sky fairy” story is
scientifically adequate to be presented as truth.
Sevenoaks School
has gone for a lighter touch by constraining their wasting of children’s
valuable time to RE lessons, as per the religious schools standard. I am not against religious education when taught
well, but too often the curriculums of ideology-based schools are mired in
indoctrination and irrelevance.
Meanwhile, Grindon Hall helpfully highlights the internal contradiction
of faith-based knowledge with the following:
“We believe that God,
as sovereign Lord of the universe, is capable of creating the world in a few
24-hour days, or over a period of millions of years.”
“We vigorously
challenge the unscientific certainty often claimed by scientists surrounding
the so-called “Big Bang” and origins generally.”
A plausible alternative to science
Not only is this recklessly stupid, but it teaches students
the wrong idea about science; that it is acceptable to fill gaps in scientific
knowledge with “God did it”, rather than actually using intellect and rigour.
This comes within a week of Germany
banning the archaic ritual of circumcision for religious reasons, much to the
indignation of the penis slashing zealots, and proving that our island is still
hopelessly backward compared with our neighbour mainland Europe,
whose dangerous secular ideas we continue to shun for no apparent reason.
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