The BBC reported yesterday, “An exam board has scrapped a GCSE biology question about creationism after admitting it could be misleading. The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance paper asked pupils how the Bible’s theory of creation seeks to explain the origins of life.”
Says Graeme Paton, Education Editor for the Telegraph, “James Williams, lecturer in education at Sussex University, has already complained directly to Ofqual, the exams watchdog, and Ed Balls, the Education Secretary, over the exam. The disclosure threatens to reignite the row over the teaching of creationism in state schools”
The BBC, reports James Williams as saying, ”the science education community must respond by introducing evolution and the reality of how life developed.’” I thought that is what they have been trying to do for the last 150 years!
