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.

I would like to thank prof. Stephen Hawkins for answering this question.

I have not mentioned any religious books by name. So why assume?

Answer 1

WARNING!

The characters contained within this book are purely fictional and any resemblance to people alive or dead is purely coincidental

Answer 2

Hmmm.....depends on what religious books you are refering to. Some people do not consider one religious book to be religious while another group does. Sacred texts of one group are often ignored by the other. Besides I wasn't aware that religious books were being taught in public schools? If they are, then sure we should put a warning sticker on it that says "this may contradict your own personally held beliefs, read with caution." Of course there are so many sacred texts in the world that I can't imagine that public schools would ever teach them correctly (everyone has a bias).

Blessings in Frodo.

Peace

Answer 3

Think about it:
There is no evidence in any religious text anywhere of the existence of MUNCHKINS and yet they were discovered in Kansas by Dorothy and Toto. So (for our own protection, of course) the POWERS THAT BE had to hush it up - the only surviving MUNCHKINS are in area 57 right now in deep cryogenics. (except the members of the lollipop league, who escaped and formed a group called The Spice Girls).
You don't need any warnings on religious texts - if you're smart enough to read, you can see through them.
But, either way, isn't the Bible terminally BORING?

Answer 4

Unfortunately teachers attempt to teach whats in the text book. Accuracy is irrelevant. Textbook publishers want to please those paying for the text books. If you want a text book to say that humans evolved-that is what you get, and if you what that book to say that God created us-and you pay for it-then that's what you get. Evolution is a theory that has been greatly promoted in the last 50 years only by those paying for the text books (education officials). Therefore evolution has been pushed by the education community and not by the scientific community. We just need to teach the truth, and not teach a lie. We have no evidence that we evolved. We just want the textbooks to reflect actually what we know. It is okay to teach evolution-as long as it is not taught as fact. The education system should be liable for what they have done with this lie.

Answer 5

No. These biology books are heavily prejudicial against the faith of 90% (by American overall statistics) of the kids in class. The kids want the stickers as much as the adults.

Answer 6

I think that the kids who take religious books as fact are of such low intelligence lets let not waste time trying to convince them of something that should be perfectly obvious.

I'd love to know what these religious people would do if they were taken ill or had an accident and needed medical science to help them.......

Answer 7

The only ones who worry about their children learning about evolution don't take the time to teach the Bible to them, and know that Sunday Schools and Bible Schools do a less than competent job.

Answer 8

Religious books should not be used in any class unless it's a class about religion

Answer 9

I believe in "Intelligent Design". There are so many examples of fine Americans that could only arise by God's intervention. Look at G. Bush, for example.

Answer 10

I think a big America is dangerous sticker is called for

Answer 11

As a Christian I would actually say 'yes'! In Jesus own words...Mark 10:34-39

" 34"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. 37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."