RE: [escepticos] Nuevo México rechaza la enseñanzacreacionista

[Enrique Reyes <conen@...>]

Marcela E. Brusa Daly wrote:
> 
> Oh oh, epidemia en puerta, lo proximo sera la sancion legal del English
> only.
> 
> Saludos
> Desde Lala Land
> 
> 
> >  Victor R. Ruiz
> >
> >
> >   Hola:
> >
> >   Al parecer, en Nuevo México han decidido dejar de enseñar la teoría (?)
> > creacionista en respuesta al paso dado en Kansas. Lo cuenta la CNN en
> > http://cnn.com/US/9910/09/schools.evolution.ap/index.html
> >
> >   Saludos,
> >

Creo que lo has leido mal, Marcela, la noticia es bastante positiva. De
una situación donde se estaba enseñando el creacionismo se pasa a una en
la que no es obligado y así se especifica claramente.

Cito de un e-mail de otra lista:

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The Los Angeles Time reports:

>SANTA FE, N.M.--Teachers in New Mexico no longer have to teach creationism 
>along with the theory of evolution in their classrooms.
>In a 14 -1 vote Friday, the board decided against requiring instruction on 
>creationism or other alternative theories about how life forms came to be.
>"The action we took clarifies, so there is no equivocation, that the 
>leading theory of how the Earth was created has to do with evolution," 
>board president Flora Sanchez said. "Other ideas may be part of classroom 
>discussion and inquiry, but (the state) does not require their teaching."

Maybe all is not lost for science in U.S. public schools. Hopefully,
more 
states will follow New Mexico's lead. The complete article is at 
http://www.latimes.com/wires/19991009/tCB00V0645.html .

Dean A. Batha
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Nada, pues eso. Saludos,

Enrique Reyes