g ground,” argues the British Humanist Association which is playing a key role in the campaign.
About the situation here:
In Britain, where unlike the United States religious observance is weak, there are strong concerns among secularist groupings over the promotion by Prime Minister Tony Blair, a professed Christian, of “faith-based” education.
The Labour government has allowed creationists to take over funding and administration of at least one state school where pupils are taught creationism.
Other schools may follow, Keith Porteous Wood of Britain’s National Secular Society says, unless critics speak out.
After Iraq it’s comforting to be able to oppose Tony Blair – or Blair, as he should be referred to in this context. It seems like the natural order of things.
And this comes as no surprise:
But in Muslim countries, proponents of Darwin Day say the idea is a non-starter, for the moment. In many, the non-religious and even scientists who take a Darwinist view can face prison, or death, for propagating agnosticism or atheism.
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