The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued a statement today excoriating "Expelled" for "inappropriately pitting science against religion" and for its "depict[ion of] those who accept evolution as racist and sympathetic to Nazis."
Such generalized insults are untrue and grossly unfair to millions of scientists in the United States and worldwide who are working to cure disease, solve hunger, improve national security, and otherwise advance science to improve the quality of human life.
- AAAS, April 18, 2008
- AAAS, April 18, 2008
The AAAS notes its continued efforts to foster constructive communication through its Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion and points to the 11,000+ signers of the Clergy Letter Project as evidence that faith and science can be complementary instead of corrosive. The fact that the latter is denigrated by IDcreationism proponents as being signed by those who "crave alleged intellectual respectability more than they respect the Bible and the Gospel" starkly illustrates that this is an issue between rival Christian sects, not between science and faith. Anti-evolutionists often accuse religious REAL science supporters of not being True ChristiansTM because of their conflicting interpretations of Scripture.
The AAAS recognizes that the timing of this movie is not coincidental, with so-called "
At a time when the United States faces serious economic challenges, we cannot risk derailing efforts to provide the best possible science education for the next generation of problem solvers. Our children deserve no less.
posted by Cheryl Shepherd-Adams
