Ethics

Freshwater Update, Day 3

By Ed Brayton

The hearings concerning faux-science teacher John Freshwater continue in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Dick Hoppe is attending the hearings and filing reports at the Panda's Thumb. Here are some highlights. On Day 3 of the hearings, the student into whose arm Freshwater burned the cross with a Tesla coil testified. Some of what came out there reveals why Freshwater has no business teaching any science class. Like using creationist videos:

Zach testified that Freshwater brought up religion in class in several ways. First, he used a video, "The Watchmaker," that likens life to a watch (Paley, anyone?). Millstone showed the video in the hearing room. It's pure Paley, and was produced by Truth4kids.com. Truth4kids is run by an engineer named Dave Hawkins, known on multiple web forums as "afdave." Dave also blogs at Truthmatters, and he is a young-earth creationist.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).