I'm just wondering how exactly a teacher can go about explaining creationism throughout a whole semester without actually preaching to a classroom. I mean, with no empirical evidence supporting the claim, how much can you really say about it?
2007-02-06 07:12:49 · 14 answers · asked by Snicker_Doodle8 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can not teach something in a place of higher education that is not based in science, to do so would be irresponsible and against the very document that has kept out country free, The Constitution. Constitution means what something is made of...we were made of freedom... religion is coercion...in a sense, because you have to have "faith" to "believe" in most religious teachings as it relates to God. Science on the other hand used hypothesis, evidence, facts and not "faith. (Creationism as a hypothesis might be tollerable if there was any evidence....but there is not).
2007-02-06 07:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by chuck 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Creationism doesn't necessarily have to debunk evolution, or visa-verse. Evolution gives a detailed account of how we came to our current state (not without many holes in the theory), while creationism allows people to have a purpose or a "why" to our existence. Would be sad to think we had evolved into this higher state to just die and rot away in the ground! However, I would agree that creatonism should be left in churches and temples - not inside a high school science classroom.
2007-02-06 15:26:37 · answer #2 · answered by JamesW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You obviously have done no thoughtful research on the subject. Look it up and study it out a bit.
Hey, I'd be happy if they'd just allow teachers to teach the problems with evolution--for instance, that many rocks have several different dates, depending on the dating method used. The researcher then chooses the date that's closest to what he thought it was in the first place. And what are the assumptions on which radioactive dating are based in the first place? If you don't know the answer to the last question, yur teaches has not taught you properly. Go onto a creationist website (answersingenesis.org, I think, is a good one) and fill in this hole in your education.
2007-02-06 15:18:37 · answer #3 · answered by Maryfrances 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In Kansas, they've actually stopped teaching science altogether. Now the science teacher just takes all the kids down to the lake, puts them in burlap sacks, and throws them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.
OK, I stole that from Paula Poundstone. But it's practically like that.
Even the most articulate, informed, relatively reasonable of "intelligent design" proponents - Behe, for example - are compelled to "argue from ignorance," i.e. their bedrock argument is that "this is so complex that we don't understand how it could've just 'happened,' ergo God did it." All they are really doing is defining the point at which human knowledge drops off. I always refer to it as "the God ate my homework."
2007-02-06 15:22:49 · answer #4 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't say much, but that is beside the point. The point is that creationism is not a scientific theory: it is irrefutable, and since an irrefutable theory can have no predictive power, it is useless. A theory must be refutable to be considered science, since it can be shown that the usefulness of any theory derives exclusively from its refutability.
2007-02-06 15:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, there's a LOT of empirical evidence to support it and also deny evolution. THOUSANDS of scientific facts. I plan to teach creation science at a local community college this summer. If I were to include every detail of what I know, it would probably take two semesters!
For a good read, I would suggest "The Evolution Cruncher" by Vance Ferrell.
2007-02-06 15:19:05 · answer #6 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No empirical evidence for Macro-Evolution, no empirical evidence for Creation. I think it would be wise to teach biology, micro-evolution, geology, etc....teach the hard sciences....and leave origins to the parents.
Teach empirical sciences only.
2007-02-06 15:18:16 · answer #7 · answered by aarondarling 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
well, brainiac:
#1- Creation is true. do you want the teachers to lie to the kids?
#2- there IS evidence. Only blind, deaf, dumb, lame, and dead people can't see that. Look outside. Do you think the world actually happened by CHANCE?! now THAT is an example of NO evidence!
#3- they wouldn't be "preaching" to them. Just telling them of how they & their world was made. Because there is scientific evidence. Everything the Bible says fits together like a puzzle with the world.
2007-02-06 15:18:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
It's amazing how much fluff the Creationist crowd can come up with. I'd hate to be the teacher forced to spew that crap.
2007-02-06 15:15:30 · answer #9 · answered by nondescript 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
True, it would be a one day course at most no matter how they tried to flesh it out.
2007-02-06 15:19:21 · answer #10 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋