{"id":916,"date":"2004-07-21T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2004-07-21T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T17:32:13","slug":"creationism-and-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"creationism and schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the record, I went up last week to Middlesbrough to talk to the Vardy Foundation about their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinwars.com\/lunatic\/liars\/layfield.html\">creationist<\/a> tendencies. I spent nearly two hours talking to the headmaster, Nigel McQuoid, who is, I think, a full-on young earth creationist, who doesn&#8217;t believe that science could, even in principle disprove the account in genesis. But that&#8217;s not actually what matters.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhat matters is that he doesn&#8217;t have this stuff taught in science classes. He says it has never been taught as science in Vardy schools, and I am inclined to believe him. It&#8217;s not my habit to trust headmasters or evangelical christians. The intersection of the two sets gets special distrust. None the less, I thiknk he&#8217;s an honest man, and that he was telling the truth. He also has some of his RE lessons taught by an atheist. It is also germane that he is clearly running a damn good school.<\/p>\n\n<p>I asked him about the Layfield talk linked to above as well, and he said, more or less. &#8220;Steve was just kicking ideas about. I don&#8217;t think he ever did anything about it.&#8221; The PR woman got a fit of the giggles when I asked about the craters on the moon being caused by Adam&#8217;s expulsion from Eden &#8212; one of Layfield&#8217;s more unusual ideas for livening up science lessons.<\/p>\n\n<p>More later, in <span class=\"caps\">G2.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the record, I went up last week to Middlesbrough to talk to the Vardy Foundation about their creationist tendencies. I spent nearly two hours talking to the headmaster, Nigel McQuoid, who is, I think, a full-on young earth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}