Broadcast Soul: Teacher Expelled Over Religion

A Texas science teacher Chris Comer was fired for not being neutral about the teaching of creationism. She was given notice of being fired after she forwarded an email about an upcoming science lecture. She was and is a victim of the political move toward an agenda against freedom and inequality. There is a push to include things that have nothing to do with science in classes that are supposed to be about science. There is a time and a place for the teachings of creationism but that place is not the science classroom. Science is a field that deals with studies that can result in particular proven truths. If it cannot be proven through established scientific methods or even scientific methods that are not necessarily conventional then it need not be included in a science class other than just to say that it is a theory that has never been proven. To teach it in class from a scientific standpoint would require that you ask the students to investigate it for themselves from a scientific point of view. It would require you to ask them to create a hypothesis and then seek to prove it or disprove it. This cannot likely be done in the time a high school teacher has to teach a chapter from a science book. Texas is the place that created our good ole boy president Bush and it is no surprise that it is also the place that has a political agenda against inequality with regards to religious beleifs and the separation of church and state.