Canada Schools Teach Paganism

Physics professor Larry Krauss writes:

In the early 2000s, I spent much of my time over the course of several years fighting the incursion of religion into science classes in the United States. ...

We were very successful, culminating in a famous court case in Dover, Pennsylvania, where a local school board had tried to replace a high school science text with an intelligent design textbook. After testimony from numerous scientists, the judge wrote a remarkable 139-page judgement describing ID as religion, rather than science, and therefore not appropriate for discussion in high school science classes.

Actually the judge did not write it. The ACLU wrote it, and the judge rubber-stamped it. The decision relied on the Lemon Test, which has since been reversed by the US Supreme Court. The judgment no longer has value.

You may wonder how religious fundamentalism could so effectively creep into the curriculum in a progressive place like British Columbia. The answer is simple. The religious nonsense being inserted into the curriculum has nothing to do with Christian fundamentalism; rather, it is Indigenous religious nonsense. And in the current climate, Indigenous “knowledge” is held to a different standard from scientific knowledge — or, rather, to no standard at all.

The B.C. Curriculum resorts to a phrase that was utilised by the New Zealand government when they too distorted the high school science curriculum in that country by arguing that Indigenous “Ways of Knowing” should be taught alongside conventional science and treated as an equally valid way of understanding how the world works.

The Catholic Church and the other mainstream Christian churches teach regular science, and not the stuff he complains about.