{"id":1699,"date":"2008-03-07T18:15:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/07\/schools-should-put-faith-in-sc\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T18:15:37","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T18:15:37","slug":"schools-should-put-faith-in-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/schools-should-put-faith-in-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools should put faith in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Rowed published an Op Ed piece in the Calgary Herald last October that has just come to my attention.  It is about evolution in schools in Canada, and provides an interesting perspective.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should we reward them with taxpayers&#8217; money to pass on these wonderful insights to the next generation? Should our future leaders learn to smother their critical thinking and make decisions based on faith rather than evidence and reason? From Canada, we don&#8217;t have to look too far south to see how tragic these faith-based decisions can be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/calgaryherald\/news\/theeditorialpage\/story.html?id=13a14d1e-66cc-4ffa-b67d-ac6b5af0042d&#038;p=2\">Read the whole thing here. <\/a>Scott has another Op Ed piece coming out shortly.  I&#8217;ll pass on that link when I get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Rowed published an Op Ed piece in the Calgary Herald last October that has just come to my attention. It is about evolution in schools in Canada, and provides an interesting perspective. Should we reward them with taxpayers&#8217; money to pass on these wonderful insights to the next generation? Should our future leaders learn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/schools-should-put-faith-in-sc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schools should put faith in science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,151,156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-rp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}