Evolution warning?

Question

Quote from CBS news.
And it continues to this day: Kansas reinstated the teaching of evolution this year, 18 months after the state school voted to drop it from classes. Alabama's school board voted to put stickers on biology books warning that evolution is controversial.

My real question is that should a warning sticker be put on religious books for the same reason that they may be controversial?

This question has been put in the biology and religious sections

Answer 1

If the theory of evolution is to be considered controversial then religion as a whole should have a sticker on it saying 'Dangerous material: Intelligent supervision required!'.
Look around the planet right now and you will see conflicts across the globe where one religion is confronting another. What a great advert for Religion..
At the end of the day the Kansas folk can put whatever they want onto books as half of the people probably cannot read anyway!

Answer 2

Evolution is only controversial to those who take an extremely literalistic view of sacred texts. The mechanisms of evolution may be as yet not fully understood, but its effects are for anyone to see. Why else would everyone be so worried about bird flu if the virus could not evolve into a more virulent form?
Religious books do not necessarily need a sticker, but their content should never be taken as literal fact. religious teaching should be kept quite separate from biology, geology, archaeology or any other 'ology' for that matter.

Answer 3

Evolution is not controversial. That is, not as a scientific theory. The only case against evolution is that some fundamentalist say it's in conflict with the book of Genesis.

I suggest the Bible, Q'ran etc be labeled with stickers saying that they are fiction.

Answer 4

The fact is that schools should be teaching FACTS- at the very least if they refuse to recognize the facts and continue to reject the truth of creation, then teach all of the possibilities that have been set forth and let the students make up their own minds.
Because the facto fo the matter is, no matter what people say or believe- there is no proof and no logical foundation for the theory of evolution. It is not an established fact and pushing out all other possibilities to teach evolution exclusively does not make it fact.
So at the very least , if they are going to teach evolution in schools then they need to be honest and let students know that it is controversial and why, teach creation as well, OR just scrap it all and admit they don't have a clue and don't attempt to teach about the origins of the earth at all.



I cannot make you believe something that you don't want to believe, but I urge you to use discernment, reason and logic when thinking aobut evolution- all the things evolutionists accuse us of not using , but really- do the principles of evolution make sense? If this has taken place over the course of millions of years, little by little, then we are being decieved when we are told we are looking for "the missing link" we are looking for millions of missing links- besides that- there are so many common sense, scientific questions that evolution just cannot answer- no matter how you twist it.
If you are really interested in education and not just disproving something that does not fit your mold- read this article, it is fun reading but very informative and common sense-
Meet Gaspy: the lungfish:

http://www.reflecthisglory.org/study/did...

here are other bits of interesting fact for you to ponder :

Charles Dawson, a British lawyer and amateur geologist announced in 1912 his discovery of pieces of a human skull and an apelike jaw in a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown, England . . . Dawson's announcement stopped the scorn cold. Experts instantly declared Piltdown Man (estimated to be 300,000 to one million years old), the evolutionary find of the century. Darwin's missing link had been identified. Or so it seemed for the next 40 or so years. Then, in the early fifties . . . scientists began to suspect misattribution. In 1953, that suspicion gave way to a full-blown scandal: Piltdown Man was a hoax . . . tests proved that its skull belonged to a 600-year-old woman, and its jaw to a 500-year-old orangutan from the East Indies." Our Times--the Illustrated History of the 20th Century (Turner Publishing, 1995, page 94).

Science Fiction
The Piltdown Man fraud wasn't an isolated incident. The famed "Nebraska Man" was built from one tooth, which was later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig. "Java Man" was found in the early 20th Century, and was nothing more than a piece of skull, a fragment of a thigh bone and three molar teeth. The rest came from the deeply fertile imaginations of plaster of Paris workers. "Heidelberg Man" came from a jawbone, a large chin section and a few teeth. Most scientists reject the jawbone because it's similar to that of modem man. Still, many evolutionists believe that he's 250,000 years old. No doubt they pinpointed his birthday with good old carbon dating. Now there's reliable proof. Not according to Time magazine (June 11, 1990). They published an article in the science section that was subtitled, "Geologists show that carbon dating can be way off." Don't look to "Neanderthal Man" for any evidence of evolution. Recent genetic DNA research indicates the chromosomes do not match those of humans. They do match those of bipedal primates (apes).

What does Science Say?
Here are some wise words from a few respected men of science: "Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless." (Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research). "Evolution is unproved and unprovable." (Sir Arthur Keith--he wrote the foreword to the 100th edition of, Origin of the Species). "Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever." (Dr. T. N. Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission, USA).

"To suppose that the eye . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

A great resource for some education that is logical and common sense is called "The Science or Evolution: expand your mind" You can get this DVD from WayoftheMaster.com

Answer 5

well the whole stickers on books is just ridiculous
reminds me of the whole explicit lyrics parental advisory nonsense
whats wrong with allowing people to actually make up there own mind about things

interestingly enough I've got an aunt who's a biology teacher and doesn't believe in evolution
cant beat a bit of devout Christianity to cloud your judgement

Answer 6

Evolution is pretty much fact, as far as I am aware Kansas is a very religeous state. People will do anything to hold on to what makes them feel safe and comfortable, these people feel safe with the bible and have tried to blot out fact.

If this makes them feel more comfortable and safer then thats fine, but they should allow kids to make up their own mind

Answer 7

Of course....at least you can see evolution, everywhere you look, but religion well thats a little iffy. If you can teach religion in a book then you can also teach evolution and any restriction to one should apply to both!

Answer 8

yes definatly, "state sponsored" religion and we're in the 21 century an it's not some backward country it's america popping out there own religious fanatics brainwashing them so they like sheeple are happy to go die for god and country despite the fact if the shooting at people and not missing immediatly breaks one of the 10 commandments....

Answer 9

thats redicules, silly, stupid. evolution is controversial so lets delet it from biology books in schools. we are living in 21th century and we couldent get along with this fact yet! is'nt it stupid?

Answer 10

Absolutely!

Are they taught all religions? Surely teaching shouldn't state something is fact unless it is widely accepted as such ie no religion should be taught as fact.