When I was in Jr HIgh I heard this... President JFK said it and Al Gore said it Why does so much inaccurate information get passed along uncritically
but its not true and the concentrations are listed here http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i4/presidents.asp
2007-01-08 02:16:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
It's an educated urban myth. There's a bunch of them on the livescience site that are interesting.
2007-01-08 02:23:36 · answer #1 · answered by lyyman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not being "pushed" as you claim. Find a textbook that was printed after the 70's and I doubt you'll find anything more than a casual reference than many of the minerals in seawater are also in the blood. Which of course was always the point. Even older texts weren't claiming identical concentrations - this was just the distorted view that got circulated by those who didn't really understand what they were reading.
2007-01-08 05:15:36 · answer #2 · answered by solarchem 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You question makes no sense. You ask why it is being pushed in schools, but then go on to cite two people that are not teachers as the ones that were pushing it. They are public figures, and prone to make mistakes, but how does that equate to a lie being pushed in a school?
2007-01-08 02:28:24 · answer #3 · answered by Danny 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They also tell you that water puts out fire by smothering it. Not true, it cools the fuel to the point that the chain reaction that is fire cannot be sustained.
Teachers sometimes give simplistic answers to complex questions because they think ther students are not smart enough to comprehend them, instead to teaching from the bottom up so they can understand them.
2007-01-08 02:27:15 · answer #4 · answered by opinionator 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You only cited one example (unsubstantiated at that) of any teacher ever having said this and you claim it's being "pushed in schools".
You should have taken a basic logic class.
2007-01-08 03:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by The answer guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All right. If blood is so completely unlike sea water, then I challenge you to name ONE fluid which is MORE like blood. Anything? I didn't think so.
The reason people use the analogy is because it's the most apt one there is.
2007-01-08 02:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Hate Boy! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It might be better to get the scientific viewpoint untainted by theology. It is the same conclusion but you don't need to bring God into science.
http://www.icr.org/article/513/4/
2007-01-08 02:23:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is because the *teachers* are uneducated and ignorant.
2007-01-08 02:18:40 · answer #8 · answered by Jerry P 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋