Infants' minds made to march in line

It's happened; England's pushing in a law mandating that evolution be taught to first graders.

Primary school children in England will have to learn about evolution and British history under a shake-up of the national curriculum.

And this move has come about not so much for real scientific reasons but because of lobbying by the humanists, who are the more openly theological branch of materialist atheism.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) had led a campaign to have Darwin's theory of how life evolved through natural selection made a compulsory element of the new primary curriculum.
It organised a public letter signed by more than 500 from scientists and supporters.
Andrew Copson of the BHA said: "This is excellent news. Evolution is arguably the most important concept underlying the life sciences.

There we go with more of the "most important idea in the whole of science ever" blather. Another reason the current liberal government of England is introducing this now is that they can see themselves losing an election and are trying to buttress their fortress against an incoming conservative administration having the courage to introduce criticism of darwinism into the syllabus, predictibly peddled as a scary risk of bringing the creationist doctrines of a “Religious Right” into the classroom instead of exposing minds to the new design paradigm.

Conservative plans to grant schools freedom from central control risk bringing the creationist doctrines of a “Religious Right” into the classroom, the Government warned last night.
Ed Balls, the Education Secretary, this week introduced new rules making the study of Darwin’s theory of evolution compulsory in primary schools.

Because we can't have the poor darlings learning that Darwin was anybody other than the greatest scientist ever, and if it takes government fiat shield them from the truth to then so be it. So sad.

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