[LittleNipper's response to: "Creationism is dangerous. I know we've gone around and around about this before. But it's dangerous because it teaches children to lie. It teaches children that the god they believe in is a deceiver and it teaches people that belief is more important that facts."]
EVOLUTION is dangerous. It teaches the impressionable that there only exists natural explanations for everything that happens. It is presented as faultless fact discovered through man's abilities. It is taught without consideration of any other interpretations of the data. It is presented without classroom experimentation or general debate.
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Have you ever met a middle- or high- school student? NOTHING is taught without debate and snarky comments, least of all evolution. They sense what a controversial topic it is, if they're allowed to learn it at all, and pounce like wolves.
wtf? how do you experiment with evolution? a process that takes hundreds of gererations under enviromental stresses for the smallest of changes to take place.
And the bible is presented as faultless fact reveled by god it is presented without experimentation or debate.
THE BIBLE is dangerous. It teaches the impressionable that there only exists supernatural explanations for everything that happens. It is presented as faultless fact discovered through "divine inspiration". It is taught without consideration of any other interpretations of the data. It is presented without classroom experimentation or general debate."
Wow, that was easy to fix.
EVOLUTION is not dangerous. It teaches the impressionable that there only exists natural explanations for everything that happens. It is presented as fact discovered through man's abilities. It is taught without consideration of any unreasonable interpretations of the data. It is presented with classroom experimentation or general debate."
You were only off by a few words. So close yet so far.
When I was in high-school here in Sweden (85% non-believers, 14.9999% moderate believers) a muslim immigrant questioned evolution in biology class.
It was a beautiful scene. He didn't touch the subject again.
What I'm trying to say is, I weep for American education every time I see shit like this.
Natural facts are the only things that science cares about. If you want science mixed with supernatural, come back, not to the Middle Ages, to the Paleolithic, with the shamans.
Blah blah blah, as one person said, "Just the facts ma'am. Unfortunately, you have no facts to back up your "data."
Why is it so terrible to believe that everything has a natural explanation?
Nothing is perfect. If there is an actual competing theory(creationism is NOT scientific), it will be discovered. With our current information, evolution is the explanation.
How long have we been interpreting the data on evolution?
How exactly would you do a classroom experiment with evolution? Do you just shout at bacteria, telling it to evolve?
>>It is presented without classroom experimentation <<
If you want classroom experimentation with bacteria, that's easy. We played games with E. coli in my high school microbiology class, selecting strains that did better on different growth media (although nowhere near as awesome as the longer-running experiments). In undergrad, we got to selectively breed fruit flies.
If you want classroom experimentation with human evolution, I think we have a bit of a problem.
So you'd rather teach that everything has a supernatural explanation and that therefore god is responsible for it all - including cancer, earthquakes, tsunamis, and the like. Then you want them to worship this god?
If this world of ours was "intelligently designed", I wouldn't trust the designer to make a cup of instant coffee.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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