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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
While I agree that this dude was dipshit, you must admit that his premise that the school should NOT teach Darwinian Evolution as if it were somehow an absolute and proven fact is DAMNED APPROPRIATE. Youth are impressionable and indifferent, if the teacher and the book says something, they will take it in passing as truth and move on. If the book says evolution is the all-pervasive truth, then the kids accept this, and that is not GOOD SCIENCE AT ALL, because it does not promote individual questioning of the facts..
I think that the science teachers SHOULD read statements like that dipshit from the school board had everyone read.. I don't agree with the book Of Pandas and People, nor of the sinister agendas of the ID lobbyists, BUT I also disagree with science folks thinking their absolute version is ok, but someone elses is a crock of shit..
there are no absolutes, and in A SCIENCE CLASSROOM, the truth should be ACCURATELY PRESENTED, and it should be ELABORATED that Darwinian Evolution and Natural Selection, while eloquent and logical and supported by evidence, ARE NOT ABSOLUTE FACT, and SHOULD NOT BE TAUGHT TO CHILDREN this way, as this is as much a misrepresentation of the realities and limits of science as much as Intelligent Design as promoted by the Right-wing agenda in this country is a pseudo-science..
When I was a kid, I just had to sit there and think this to myself when learning that evolution was absolute in biology or chemistry..
The teacher could have easily bridged this gap in introducing the lessons saying, "This is the THEORY of evolution, and while it is very well studied with much evidence, it remains a theory and is NOT necessarily the way the Universe was formed, but rather is a common belief accepted by many people today..."
That would solve ALL the problems if you ask me..
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