Why do we have to learn about evolution?necessarily?

Question

I mean it is so dumb!!people say that we cant learn about god in public schools b/c some people don't belive that but if we can't learn about god why do we have to learn about evolution some people don't belive that either!i mean it's so stupid!!sometimes i wish we didn't have religion b/c it kinda causes problems but at the same time i'm glad we do b/c it makes me who i am!i am a christian and i belive in god i don't belive everything in the bible necessarily. but thats my opinion!

Answer 1

Because evolution is science.
They didn't pull the theory of evolution out of their butts, they have obtained information that supports their theory.
The bible is a bunch of fairytales that can in no way be proven.
That's why.

Answer 2

Even if religion never existed evolution would still be around. It is not religion. It is science. It is science that has been researched for about two centuries now. Thousands and thousands of scientists have studied and researched it.

Evolution is the backbone of biology. I have heard it said that biology only makes sense in the light of evolution. That is perfectly true. Biology is the study of life and evolution explains how life has spread across this planet. It may disagree with certain religions, but that does not make it untrue.

Religion once attacked science for teaching that the earth goes around the sun. According to the bible in many different places, the earth is stationary. It does not move. However, scientists determined that the earth orbits the sun and is moving. In fact it is moving pretty fast. This is not what it says in the bible. People died because they announced to the world that the world was moving and that the bible was wrong about that. The bible is not always right.

Answer 3

Currently, the *theory* of evolution (notice, it is a THEORY) is the most accepted explanation of people in the scientific community, many of whom are Christians themselves (My college chemistry adviser was an ordained Baptist minister) and see no conflict between what the Bible teaches and the Theory of evolution.

What is taught in school is not always "the truth". After all, did you not learn in 1st grade that you cannot subtract a larger number from a smaller one only to be retaught later that you can? It is not that your first grade teacher did not know about negative numbers or was purposefully teaching you "a lie", but there were other concerns.

As a previous poster said, if you learn it you can refute it later and at least not be ignorant about what you are refuting. What do you have to loose? Think of this as a challenge for you to learn to think about ALL the information you are given in life. Developing critical thinking skills will make you a better person instead of one of the multitudes who simply accepts everything they are told or read.

Answer 4

We learn about the real world because it is true. We cannot think clearly without the truth. And, we cannot be free and healthy without the truth. Long ago, people used to pour human waste into their village wells. They got sick and many died. Every village all over the world made guesses about why people were getting sick. Some villages said it was because the God of Water was angry because we had trapped water in a well. Some villages blamed those among them who could count and killed them. Some villages blamed the problem on certain practices, such as praying on the wrong day. They were all just bad guesses based on fear and ignorance. Eventually, though, by learning how to melt sand and make glass for lenses that magnified how things looked, we saw the tiny creatures that live in contaminated water. Many people tried to hurt the people looking at the water with the lenses. They were afraid. And, they did not want anyone telling the truth. The village shamans had power in their false stories. They could control people in their villages and keep them afraid if they kept them ignorant of the truth. But, we learned that the water was contaminated by bacteria from our human waste and we learned to not mix our sewage with our drinking water systems. We humans explore the world around us and learn. The more we learn with the clearness of just our senses, the healthier we have become to be. Learning about evolution helps to keep us healthy and free because it has taught us more about our true struggle to rise above Nature's basal savageries, that we CAN learn and DO rise above suffering, and that we have improved ourselves. It is important to learn that we are part of a big, interconnected web of Life that is really the same in some ways for all living things. And, it is important to learn the truth of Nature because we cannot think clearly based on bad guesses. To be free, we must be able to think clearly for ourselves. Evolution is not a theory. A couple of years ago, even the Pope announced that all Christians must embrace the knowledge of evolution and science and work together to make this a healthier world. The goal of all mankind is to be healthy and free.

Answer 5

Evolution isn't just ape becoming man. I am a christian and do not believe that we evolved from an ape. I believe God created the world, he created man and woman and all the creatures.

HOWEVER, evolution does mean more than that. We evolve in many different ways. Look at our ancestors...their surroundings were different and learned to live based on their climate/area. Then due to climate changes they had to adjust and evolve or die. Animals and human evolve for their surroundings. Things change...there needs to be a basic understanding of that to understand science and society.

That said, I also think a teacher should be able to say, "God is the belief of many and this is what they believe...."

Answer 6

Because it makes us understand why do we share so many things with animals, it may help you to understand why we get to act by instinct in some situations, it helps you to understand that you have a sixth sense more or less developed based on your previous experience (millions of years of experience on your gens).
It makes you understand why is war for territories or power so important, as well as to think that if we come from the same root, even though, we have change by adaptation, why is it so hard to try to help each other? and why don´t we as an specie work together to make a better world?, after all, we share this world, and after all what we all want is to have a good life.
Why don't we take advantage of anything we learn, and start enjoying it, after all, many kids are out there without even knowing how to write their names.

If you believe in God feel blessed and give thanks by learning as much as you can, and in the future try to be someone who may be able to tell the world: "if we believe in evolution, why don't we believe that we can make a better world and start building it?? instead of talking to much crap"

Answer 7

The theory of evolution has little to do with religion. Except that many religious people say it's incorrect. It's the religious people who make evolution a religious thing. Scientists are merely using logic and observation, and are rarely informed by books written thousands of years ago,

Answer 8

You can learn about god in a religion class. You learn about evolution in a science class.

As to why--knowledge is power. The more you know, the better off you are.

And even if you don't believe in evolution, it's good to learn about it so you know what you're talking about when you say you don't believe.

Answer 9

Why? Because evolution is science. It is in fact the way life on this planet came to be in it's current form. NOT teaching it would be cheating students of the facts of life. Should we decide NOT to teach about ancient Egypt because some self-deceiving people don't want to believe that ancient Egyptians existed as we know they did? There are still fools who don't believe that man walked on the moon. Should we avoid teaching about the Apollo missions because of this? The day we stop teaching the truth because of pressure from any fanatical group is the day we should give up education altogether and go back to living in the stone age.

Answer 10

Well in my school i had to learn about both; God in religious studies and evolution in science. I think it's better that way, so we can choose ourselves.