Wednesday, October 16, 2013

National Secular Society.

SCHOOLS WARNED AGAINST CREATIONISM, according to the Independent (UK) 11 October 2012. The National Secular Society (NSS) in the UK have issued a report named Evangelism in State Schools, which calls on the government to introduce stricter guidelines to prevent evangelical Christian groups from “proselytising” during Religious Education (RE) lessons. The report is particularly concerned that visiting Christian RE teachers might “push creationism and their own brand of sex education”. According to the report: “The low priority given to RE and collective worship in many schools, combined with the short supply of qualified RE teachers and general pressure to provide sufficient teaching hours provides an ideal environment for evangelical groups to exploit”.
Just how much MORE influence does the NSS want, I wonder? 
I always worry when one group tries to gag or silence another. It usually means that they are desperately worried that the deficiencies in their arguments are about to be exposed.
What I want to see is a John Mackay or a Ken Ham invited to a full and fair televised debate against leading evolutionary scientists - but these will 'do a runner' as they always have - using the pathetic excuses which are regularly trotted out:
Oxygen of publicity.
Evolution is proven so why debate?
A debate would legitimise creationism etc, etc.
The actual problem is that they have lost too many such debates in the past and dare not do so again in front of an audience of millions rather than hundreds!

Jonah Sulks Because God Does Not Destroy Nineveh Following Their Repentance. In My Part of England He'd Be Described As 'Mardy'.

  5)  Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what ...