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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'm going to stop right there and answer to this before anything else and say BOLLOCKS.

the dumb book-burning cop's premise is utterly wrong because it simply doesn't apply to the teaching of science. if he wants to teach in bible school that science is wrong or made a mistake about evolution because the word of god says differently, by all means he is free to do it (though he'd be the worst kind of dumbass incompetent theologian by doing that). but he needs to keep his filthy paws off the science curriculum. he doesn't know or understand science. science teachers don't go to sunday school to say that the bible is bullshit and that science proves it. keep science and religion separate. they are different endeavors.

your statement that science does not promote individual questioning of the facts is either blatantly or willfully ignorant-- science is based on questioning ane experimentation, and it revises its truths constantly-- that's the essence of science. those who confuse science with a secular gospel either do not understand science at all or never had the luck to receive a proper education.

i'll check the rest of your post a little later cuz i don't have time to answer the rest right now.