Rick Stevens wrote: > Maybe we could get a bunch of psychometricians together to go to Kansas and > administer IQ tests. I understand the frustration behind this, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the 6 board members who voted against science teaching have IQs as high as the 4 who voted in favor of science teaching. Furthermore, I think we risk contributing to the problem if we continue to refer to this kind of thing as a matter of low intelligence, simply because I think we're wrong about that. I am fairly sure that the problem is more the product of misplaced goals: that the creationists put the goal of the defense of fundamentalist religious beliefs above the goal of teaching science. Having done so, their actions are not only not stupid, but in fact effective, intelligent, well-planned means to reach their goals.
I don't have any magic solution to the problem, unfortunately, but I think that the problem would be better addressed by better character education than by focusing on intelligence. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee
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