Schools: Religious Education Debate

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Schools: Religious Education

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Thursday 30th June 2016

(7 years, 10 months ago)

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We have a settled policy that evolution should be taught in schools as an essential element of a rigorous modern scientific education. Outside science lessons there is scope for people to discuss beliefs about the origins of the earth and so on.

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Will the Minister reflect on why, if the Government believe that non-religious beliefs have a full and important place in religious studies, they have moved to encourage schools and those who set syllabuses to ignore a legal judgment that sets out exactly that position?

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As I have said already, a much wider interpretation is being made of this narrow judgment than should be.

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