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LifestreamUnsettling. And perhaps no wonder when you consider the British government’s lax handling of private and public sectarian schools. If they are to be allowed at all.
BBC - Just under half of Britons accept the theory of evolution as the best description for the development of life, according to an opinion poll.Furthermore, more than 40% of those questioned believe that creationism or intelligent design (ID) should be taught in school science lessons.
According to current statistics “[t]he vast majority of faith schools are Christian. Out of 7,000 schools, 6,955 are Christian. 36 are Jewish, five Muslim and two Sikh.”
Is the world going to come to an end because people question the theory of evolution — or, is it just that the world comes to an end for people who have made the TOE a religion, thus removing their world view.
The difference being of course that according to any sane take on this controversy, one side is corroborated by a mountain of evidence, across several fields, and the other (which lacks even a unified front) just takes it on faith. It is insulting to science to even suggest that religion can begin to be measured by the same standards. Or that science can be measured by the same standards as religion (effectively calling it a "religion").
As for the world ending, that could very well be so. It is a fact that modern societies have gone to great lengths to unify their populations. One could argue that the entire point of the nation state project is an answer to the industrialization and its demand for replaceable human components to tend its "dark satanic mills" as it were. One doesn’t have to like it, but one needs to realize that the current system is such that the educational system is at the center of making the contemporary world work. Of course, cultural disunity could be used to justify just about anything from internment camps, apartheid to ethnic cleansing. But in reality, all we have to do is keep our education system intact and hold it to a high and universal standard of science … and support ethnicity, culture, religion in the private sphere.