RexRed,
I will try to answer some of your questions about the news article on British education policies.
Quote:These people think they are smart because they know the Greek word for "mob" -- Ekklesia
Ekklesia is an online news service specializing in news about religion in England and Wales.
Quote:So from a US point of view this is confusing... is she UK school minister as in education minister or school minister as in clergy?
In the UK, Tony Blair is, of course, the "prime" minister. Members of his "cabinet" are also called ministers (not "secretaries" as cabinet members in the U.S. are called).
Quote:How about objective science? This is not teaching but dictating. The students will be railing on these teachers who try to obscure their fundamental right to choice. I will be with them on this one.
The minister is excluding creationism from science classes. She states that creation
can be taught in "RE" classes. "RE" denotes religious education.
Quote:What might this "category mistake" be? That God did NOT create the heavens and the earth? Great clergy you are. If you can doubt the first lines of the Bible you can doubt any line anywhere you want and the whole book is worthless. (most Catholics don't read the Bible anyway.. should figure.)
The leader of the Anglican Church called creationism a "category mistake". In other words, issues of religion should be kept separate from issues of science.
Most of your objections, rexred, seem to indicate that you are not willing to keep issues of religion separate from issues of science. In the UK, both the education minister and the leader of the Anglican Church want to keep issues of religion separate from issues of science.