Paul Yeulett
Paul Yeulett is understood to be a senior assessment co-ordinator and maths teacher at Emmanuel College, one of the three Vardy schools. The Guardian reported on 9th March 2002 that he had said that evolutionists have "a faith which is blind and vain by comparison with the faith of the Christian... A Christian teacher of biology will not (or should not) regard the theory of evolution as axiomatic, but will oppose it while teaching it alongside creation."
At the time Emmanuel College was receiving a lot of attention from the national press about its teaching of creationism and comments from teachers there were widely reported in the national newspapers and other publications. The publicity, to put it mildly, was adverse and, indeed, the government appears to have been forced to step in and tell the Vardy people to get their act together (publicity wise, at least).
One of the consequences is that teachers at Vardy schools have since kept their mouths well and firmly shut about their religious opinions. Yeulett appears to be amongst these..
Yeulett has even written a booklet on the subject of bringing his religion into the mathematics classroom – The Teaching of Mathematics – A Biblical Perspective. It was published by the Christian Institute in 2000 (ISBN 1 901086 11 9)
The booklet is one of a number of small tomes of the same family published by the Christian Institute in which what appear to be fundamentalist teachers present their case for brining their religion into their subjects. Tomes include history, mathematics and music.
It appears that they were part of an initiative of the Institute targeted at teachers in general. They were published around the turn of this decade. Moreover, most of the authors were or became teachers at Vardy schools.
A summary of Yeulett’s booklet can be found in a newsletter of the Christian Institute.
Yeulett believes that God is the author of mathematics. Like many religious fundamentalists he has also got it in for Stephen Hawking. Apart from that the article mostly seems to be nothing more than meaningless rhetoric.
