Are creationists returning to their YEC roots?

"You guys" may be something of an over-generalization. I have actually advocated teaching creationism and been successful - right along side phlogiston theory and geocentrism in a section in an IB Biology curriculum concerning the history of discarded concepts (a section on what makes science, science). Of course, I doubt the YECs and IDists would have appreciated the treatment - and I could never have pulled it off in the US. International curricula are generally more open to this kind of thing...

Yep, that was exactly how we approached it. However, it wasn't in Virginia - in Kyiv, Ukraine at Pechersk School International, and now in Quito, Ecuador at Academia Cotopaxi. My oldest daughter (10th grade) is in the first year of IB Bio. I'm so proud...

Do you have an example of this? I mean, where someone used the scientific literature to point out an error in a textbook and got fired for it? This sounds extremely unlikely on its face, unless the teacher was attempting to twist the literature (or quotemine) in favor of some kind of religious dogma. I'd be fascinated to read any articles you have links to on that issue.

Thanks. However, even without getting into why I consider Hovind a less-than-reliable source of information on anything (if he said the sky was blue, I'd want independent corroboration), my computer is well on its way to the Great Computer Junkyard in the Sky, and consequently doesn't take well to internet downloads. I'd appreciate it if you could provide a transcript of the relevant claim. I don't need the guy's phone number - just a verifiable account, even if it is a media account. I guarantee that if a teacher anywhere got fired for something they taught, then it would be a newspaper item somewhere. Until then, given the source, we'll have to take this one as a "just-so" story, I think.