In some American states, a teacher can be put into prison for teaching the theory of the Big Bang......?

Question

Is it right to only tell children half of the story?? Isn't that taking away their right to choose between religious and scientific beliefs?

Answer 1

land of the free (sic).

I think you will find is the problem of religious nutters trying to teach religion in science classes. The Center for Science and Culture (CSC) and its parent, the Discovery Institute, are leading promoters of intelligent design. Their goal: "to see design theory permeate our religious, cultural, moral and political life" by 2018.

Discovery is trying to avoid a constitutional showdown that could result in a ban on teaching intelligent design. The current approach: urging schools to "teach the controversy" over evolution that it has fueled.

A National Council of Churches USA committee released a 'resource' on the teaching of evolution in public school science classes.

A 2005 court decision in Dover, Pa., that found unconstitutional the teaching of Intelligent Design (ID) in public school science classes because it “cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious antecedents.” ID is not science.

While the Dover court decision affirmed the teaching of evolution in public school science classes, the judge pointedly refused to criticise religious teachings about creation.

The proponents of ID are now forcing their ideas into school science curricula. Although this has primarily taken place in the USA there are movements in the UK which support this concept. Most notably Peter Vardy, the prominent businessman who believes in the biblical myth, has launched several schools which teach a Creationist curriculum, under the umbrella of the Emmanuel School Foundation. One look at the FAQs from the Emmanuel Foundation website demonstrates that they do teach creationism as a very real alternative to evolution.

Uk Teachers assume that university students come equiped with a critical mechinism - however - they now are starting to question if it is enough to teach evolution or should they be addressing why creationism/ID is wrong? If they did this, it would mean a shift in how evolution is taught and would move them towards actively taking on the creationists and pulling apart their arguments rather than just assuming students can see the flaws inherent in the creationists’ arguments. At the moment we (I am a teacher) take the liberal approach of letting the student choose, but if religious nutters continue to remove the fredom of choice from students, then we teachers will start to aggresivly teach facts.

ID should be made a crime to be taught in science classes, it belongs in the religious education class, as a theory.

Answer 2

Where have you gotten your information. America still has freedom of speech. That teacher can teach the Big Bang, Creation and Evolution. Folks this is still the United States of America and we still uphold the Constitution of the USA. If I want to walk through the halls of the University saying "I Love Jesus Christ" or "The Big Bang Theory is Great" - that Constitution protects me. The only way I will go to prison is if the University charges me with trespassing or some other violation, but it will not be because I mentioned the Big Bang or Jesus Christ or Evolution.

Much blood was shed for this FREEDOM and don't ever forget it. Free Speech is a cherished American heritage. I might not like what other people say, but I'll fight for the right for them to say it.

Answer 3

The problem is that modern atheists now overlook the sticky problem of what - or Who - caused the Big Bang (that was a "singularity" which cannot be treated mathematically and thus can be safely ignored). Instead, they focus on the theory that purely deterministic, natural forces can account for everything that has happened since the first instant of the Big Bang, thus appearing to eliminate the need for God. In the popular mind, the Big Bang theory is now just one more aspect of the General Theory Evolution as the source of all life, in contrast to divine origins.
Evidence for the initial explosion or initiation point of the universe - background microwave radiation, the red shift of distant stars, etc. - is taken by many careless thinkers as evidence for all that is said to have happened thereafter, as if proof of an explosion is proof that stars and trees and DNA could all be formed by chance.
A Big Bang may have happened, but we need not put any faith in the broader "Big Bang Theory" that claims the universe as we know it could come into being by purely accidental or natural means after its explosive initiation. True, many scientists claim that the Big Bang theory is "the best scientific explanation" yet for the origin of the universe. And without doubt, the Big Bang Theory as the sole explanation for the universe will continue to be taught and believed for many years to come. However, the reality is that the immensely popular Big Bang Theory is dead.
How can you teach a science in school that has no explanation scientifically?
Besides I have not heard of any school stopping the theories but they have stopped creationism studies in public school.

Get A Grip

Answer 4

That is the single most retarde thing I have ever heard in my life. Considering that in no US state, by cnstitutional law, can you be put in jail for espousing Nazi views, it is impossible that a rational person could believe what you just said. Jail? Not repremanded. Not fired. Put in jail.

I seriously doubt there is any state where the BIg Bang theory is not required to be taught as part of Earth and Space science in public schools, much less one where there are any negative repercutions for teaching it.

RIght now the bing controversy is over whether it is sensible for teachers to give a 5 second statement saying there are various cosmological theories that include a Creator.

Answer 5

Sadly, it would seem that when most christians speak of freedom, what they really mean is that everyone should have the freedom to agree with them, teach what they want taught, see what they deem is worthy, eat what and where they do, wear what they find attractive...and the list goes on into eternity. Those who attack my thoughts and questions regarding religion, fail to recognize that, unlike many of them, I have read the bible cover to cover, and the Jerusalem bible ( 8 books deemed unimportant by the king james authors ), and every imaginable book on history of the life and times of Christ. Here are a few things christians, I feel, should find shameful. No other religion IN THE WORLD!!! has been directly responsible for the number of deaths, tortures, and imprisonments that christianity can boast, most of these in the name of converting unbelievers. Everything from the automobile, to the internet, to miraculous medicines have been deemed evil by one christain sect or another. I personally believe that one must get to know...and I mean really know christ, and then they also begin to question a religion that has taken Christ's message of love, and time and again found a way to use that message to justify horrible atrocities. Shame shame shame.

Answer 6

The put a Teacher in prison for teaching Evolution. It is what you would expect from living in a "free" country.

Answer 7

Which state? Its not taking away the right to choose because religion is generally not taught in school.

Answer 8

Those people are insane. They're repressing Free speech and Science and are not only violating the first amendment to the Constitution but also to the very foundation of Church separated from State

Answer 9

Can teachers really be imprisoned for that?? I have never heard of it.

I don't like teaching religion instead of science at all, Church is the time and place for that, but I have never heard of a school that ONLY taught religious ideas.

Answer 10

Teachers should be put in prison for teaching people to be suicide bombers. That is what you mean by Big Bang, right?