August 2008

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The Bible as Science Text

August 31, 2008 in Education, Skeptic News by admin | 1 comment

In Alberta, schools can teach kids whatever they want, as long as they do it in the name of religion.

It would be fair to say that the news story came as a bit of a shock — to me anyway. It may come as a shock to readers as well.

The CBC reported on May 02, 2007 that Mitford Middle School, a public school in the Rocky View School District in the Town of Cochrane, just west of Calgary, would launch a Christian-based education program. Having public schools teach religious dogma is bad enough, but as it turns out, things actually get worse.  Follow up news reported on the CBC on May 03, indicated that as part of this program, creationism will be taught in science class as science. Read the rest of this entry »

For the Record . . .

August 31, 2008 in Religion by admin | No comments

Nigel Hannaford couldn’t possibly be this dull. Of course, I could be wrong about that.

I came across an Opinion piece by Nigel Hannaford in the August 19, 2008 edition of the Calgary Herald entitled: If U.S. can ask leaders what they believe, why not Canada?

The best I can figure out — Nigel is upset because he wants to be able to ask politicians what their religion (or lack of it) is. I would suggest if that’s what he wants, he should just go to the political figure in question and ask the question instead of whining about it in the paper. Maybe the reason ‘they’ don’t ask Canadian leaders what they believe, Nigel, is because no newspaper journalist has bothered to get up off their butts to ask the flipp’n question! Read the rest of this entry »