Should We Teach? Or Shouldnt we?
give me your theories and opinions. im interested in the subject.
give me your theories and opinions. im interested in the subject.
Final_Product said:they can teach me it if they want. I dont care if they teach it or not, only if they use it to brainwash kids at a young age. If people are stupid enough to swallow that crap, then so be it.
you'll all know that I agree whith this ^^^ from some of the posts that I was doing about 24 hrs agotroopsofdoom said:Religion is a outdated concept PERIOD
Here is the thing, I just graduated from a life science program at university level, and teaching ID in high school biology has no positive side to it. The problem lies in the intent of those pushing it. Are they trying to spark honest debate? Are they trying to be fair and provide all possible explanations for life? Hell fucking no. The entire of purpose of pushing ID in biology is to undermine evolution. Thats the reason the scientific community has backlashed the way it has. Im all for open debate, hell in an ideal world, I wouldnt have a problem mentioning the creation beliefs of the different world religions, but Im against blantant attacks on evolution, because our school boards (and white house) are run by fundamentalist christians. that simply isnt right. if they simply wanted open debate, lets make a "current controversies in society" class a requirement and talk about evolution vs creation there, and keep it out of the science class. The ID people wont like that, you know why? because it doesnt undermine science in the science classroom, which is exactly what they want.LDGuy said:Ah, the wonders of tolerance. Lol.
I think these things have to be taught at some stage, and as long as a school doesn't make any particular creation theory seem like the "correct" one, but only a possible one, then it's fine. I guess one of the many things you're doing while you're at school is making your mind up about these things, and biased "facts" from teachers/government curriculums shouldn't get in the way of this.
the people pushing ID aren't merely trying to undermine evolution that's only the means to an end what they're really trying to do is push chritianity down everyone's throat they just kinda assume that if they could prove ID to the world that everyone would accept the rather ludicrous idea that "the father of Jesus" is actually "the one true god" with out really realising that all the nihilists and chaos theorists would start worshiping pagan deitiesScott W said:Here is the thing, I just graduated from a life science program at university level, and teaching ID in high school biology has no positive side to it. The problem lies in the intent of those pushing it. Are they trying to spark honest debate? Are they trying to be fair and provide all possible explanations for life? Hell fucking no. The entire of purpose of pushing ID in biology is to undermine evolution. Thats the reason the scientific community has backlashed the way it has. Im all for open debate, hell in an ideal world, I wouldnt have a problem mentioning the creation beliefs of the different world religions, but Im against blantant attacks on evolution, because our school boards (and white house) are run by fundamentalist christians. that simply isnt right. if they simply wanted open debate, lets make a "current controversies in society" class a requirement and talk about evolution vs creation there, and keep it out of the science class. The ID people wont like that, you know why? because it doesnt undermine science in the science classroom, which is exactly what they want.
education should be de-christian-ised so that we have a nationally mandatory religion class that teaches each of all the non-christian religions only then should we be able to teach inteligent designinfoterror said:I think it's time to depoliticize education. If it were not so slanted to the left...