Why is it that PETA-types can refuse dissection assignments and everyone is OK with it, but someone that believes in Creation HAS TO accept Big Bang and Evolution teachings as fact? If my child has to be taught evolution, then yours has to do dissection! Scientists (and science educators) need to take a firm stand on science as a whole, not pick and choose what they want to force upon the public. I guess PETA has a stronger lobbying arm, I don’t know.
I’d like to see a kid reject evolutionist teachings as fact in biology class and ask for an alternative assignment. When the school/teacher refuses, how could it not be discrimination? Students are allowed daily to request alternative assignments in regards to dissection, why not evolution? Why couldn’t a student study evolution as a guesstimate instead of fact? Do we really know it to be fact? I didn’t ask if there was evidence, I asked if it was fact. Interpreting the evidence doesn’t always lead to factual conclusions. Science asks religion to question everything, but doesn’t allow the reverse? I question evolution because I think and I am open-minded enough to question. I thought that was what education was all about. Tell me again how scientists (in general) are not fanatical extremists.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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Well said.
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