The Sunday Times 31st December 2006 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2524442_1,00.html reports that Lord Adonis, the education minister, is to allow teaching of Intelligent Design in schools under the RE syllabus.
The Times report comments that Adonis said in a parliamentary answer: “Intelligent design can be explored in religious education as part of developing an understanding of different beliefs.”
This followed action by 12 prominent academics, who recently wrote to Tony Blair and Alan Johnson, the education secretary, arguing for inclusion of ID as part of science in the national curriculum. The letter applauded the Truth in Science initiative, commenting that empirical science has "severe limitations concerning origins" and Darwinism is not necessarily "the best scientific model to fit the data that we observe". They asked the Government "...that, where schools so choose, you ensure an open and honest approach to this subject under the National Curriculum, at the same time ensuring that the necessary criteria are maintained to deliver a rigorous education."
The Truth in Science website has also reported on this letter.
http://www.truthinscience.org.uk/site/content/blogcategory/51/63/
Authors of the letter included Norman Nevin OBE, Professor Emeritus of Medical Genetics, Queen's University of Belfast and Antony Flew, former Professor of Philosophy at Reading University.
The other signatories of the letter were: David Back, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool; Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology at Warwick University; Mart de Groot, Director, Retired, Armagh Astronomical Observatory; Terry Hamblin, Professor of Immunohaematology, University of Southampton; Colin Reeves, Professor of Operational Research at Coventry University and John Walton, Professor of Chemistry, St Andrews University, as well as the three University Professors who are members of the TiS Board and Council.
The Times report comments that Adonis said in a parliamentary answer: “Intelligent design can be explored in religious education as part of developing an understanding of different beliefs.”
This followed action by 12 prominent academics, who recently wrote to Tony Blair and Alan Johnson, the education secretary, arguing for inclusion of ID as part of science in the national curriculum. The letter applauded the Truth in Science initiative, commenting that empirical science has "severe limitations concerning origins" and Darwinism is not necessarily "the best scientific model to fit the data that we observe". They asked the Government "...that, where schools so choose, you ensure an open and honest approach to this subject under the National Curriculum, at the same time ensuring that the necessary criteria are maintained to deliver a rigorous education."
The Truth in Science website has also reported on this letter.
http://www.truthinscience.org.uk/site/content/blogcategory/51/63/
Authors of the letter included Norman Nevin OBE, Professor Emeritus of Medical Genetics, Queen's University of Belfast and Antony Flew, former Professor of Philosophy at Reading University.
The other signatories of the letter were: David Back, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool; Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology at Warwick University; Mart de Groot, Director, Retired, Armagh Astronomical Observatory; Terry Hamblin, Professor of Immunohaematology, University of Southampton; Colin Reeves, Professor of Operational Research at Coventry University and John Walton, Professor of Chemistry, St Andrews University, as well as the three University Professors who are members of the TiS Board and Council.
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