Week 8 Blog: "Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets" by Leslie Kaufman

The debate between Conservatives and Liberals on the subject of Darwin theory of evolution has been well documented. However, with the influx of theories regarding Climate Change and Global Warming becoming increasingly debated along the same political lines, the debate on whether the newest scientific hot topic being taught in schools has been brought to the forefront. In Kaufman's article, bills in various states regarding how to approach teaching climate change and global warming in public schools. The debate for Conservatives is that while their is some scientific evidence or not, Climate Change and Global warming are just theories. Similar to the debate between Evolution and Creationism, both sides remain to be theories because they can not be proven true. The position of the Liberals is that keeping these theories from being taught violates the separation of Church and State. From my perspective, I like the idea of the bill presented in the state of Kentucky:

In Kentucky, a bill recently introduced in the Legislature would encourage teachers to discuss “the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories,” including “evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning.”

This gives students the opportunity to make their own decision and formulate their own opinion on the subject, as opposed to how the theory of evolution is taught in schools (both public and private) where evolution is taught in many cases as scientific truth and not a scientific theory.