Skeptiker 4/2006: Creationism, Pseudowissenschaften in biology instruction and Marienerscheinungen

Skeptiker - magazine for science and critical thinking (openPR) - creation “science” in the school teaching

According to an inquiry more than half of the Germans believes that a higher power created the earth and the life on it. It does not believe scarcely 29 per cent that ape and humans have a common ancestor. While in the USA intelligently Design verbrämte, “scientifically” version of the creation faith, when subjects at national schools were judicially forbidden, alarming messages come from Hessen. Creation myth instead of evolution - in such a way former pupils from pouring describe biology instruction.

With science in instruction Dittmar count is concerned. The professor for biology and its didactics at the Ruhr University Dortmund examine in his contribution, how creationism and other Parawissenschaften at German schools spread are.

In a further article the Viennese biologist Roland Leitner throws a view of the scene of the Schöpfungsgläubigen in the USA.

In addition in the booklet:

25 years “Marienerscheinungen” in Medjugorje. The Bosnian village became the goal of millions pilgrims from all world. But hardly one of them knows the circumstances and entangling approximately around the “features”. Skeptiker editor Bernd Harder tells a true history, excitingly like a Religionsthriller.

In addition, like always, current messages, further reports and Lesetipps.
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