When is science not science? Well not when it’s from someone who believes babies in the womb aren’t just blobs of tissue.
A biology program originally approved in the Australian state of New South Wales to teach public schoolchildren about the “Wonder of Life” before birth has been banned because of its creator’s connections to pro-life groups.
In March, the New South Wales Department of Education and Training had approved The Wonder of Life (Before Birth) program to be taught in fifth and sixth year classrooms as part of the personal development, health and physical education curriculum. The program, which uses life-sized dolls of the fetal development of a baby, was created by Bruce Coleman, a former executive director of the pro-life group NSW Right to Life.
And everything was fine until a newspaper outed Coleman as a…gasp…a pro-lifer!
So the state education department didn’t just look into the lesson plan. Nope. They banned the group outright from visiting schools. That makes sense, right?
Wouldn’t you think that someone who has studied the science of babies in the womb would have an opinion on it? So what they’re saying is that if you study what’s in the womb and decide that it’s a baby then you are unfit to teach children. So I guess the only way they’d accept science about babies is from someone who doesn’t think they’re babies.
HT Pewsitter
June 18, 2009 at 4:54 am
I wonder where on earth are the liberals who scream discrimination at every opportunity.
June 18, 2009 at 4:56 am
They're happily giggling.
June 18, 2009 at 5:12 am
This guy isn't just "a pro-lifer", he was the "executive director of the anti-abortion lobby group, NSW Right to Life" and "Mr Coleman's company, The Choices of Life Incorporated, is the Australian distributor of anti-abortion merchandise marketed by the US company Heritage House".
Plus, the Dept. of Education is stopping the program to review how the program was approved. If its found to be non-ideological, it will be re-instated.
June 18, 2009 at 12:18 pm
It is well to give the benefit of the doubt. Just make sure our brains don't fall out.
June 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm
@craig, so it's ideological to believe a baby is a baby? Wow..I'm an ideologue.
June 18, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Craig,
If you honestly believe that the program will be reinstated if found to be non-ideological, I've a bridge for you, It runs from Honolulu to Melbourne.
June 21, 2009 at 3:44 pm
EVERYTHING comes from a person's inherent ideology or world-view. EVERYTHING from what I think of an apple to my pathetic contemplation on the infinite beatific vision during adoration.
The fact that this whole thing was put on ice when this guy was outed is evidence of the dept. of education's own ideology and how this doesn't mesh well with it– hence, it is now on ice and being 'reviewed' much like prayer in schools was reviewed.
I would at this time like to point out that "separation of church and state" as a phrase is NON-EXISTENT in the constitution and even if it were, it is separation, not excommunication. It is religious freedom and not freedom from religion. Athiesm/radical scepticism (not the same thing actually) are not religions, they are positions of doubt best demonstrated by Rene Descartes who arrived at the conclusion that he can only prove that he exists– because he is thinking. Which means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about life other than the simple notion that to some degree, I am real– not sure about you or anything else.
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