pretend that a group of parents have objected to the teaching of evolution being taught in school?

Question

Lets pretend that a group of parents have objected to the mention of the concept of evolution being taught in the public schools. The school district always wants to keep the parents happy but they also feel that evolution is a key concept in science. Your job is to present both sides of the issue. Your report needs to include both the purpose for evolution in science and the removal of evolution in science. There is not set volume that needs to be written, only that you cover both issues.

can anyone start me out or give me some ideas that would go either way

Answer 1

The argument that that evolution is only a theory could be made for almost everything in science. There is the theory of gravitation, the theory of relativity, the theory that germs cause disease, etc. Theory is what makes isolated facts into science.To think science is only a set of facts and that you can remove the theory without doing any harm is fundamentally wrong. Science is a way of looking at the world, that assumes that everything can be examined and every theory can be questioned and accepted or rejected using the scientific method of reason and evidence. Without understanding the theory of evolution students can not understand the reasoning that supports much of modern biology. The facts may change with new discoveries but the habits of thought will still be valid,

There are things in the development of complex life that the theory of evolution does not adequately explain, and these should be included, but to assert the these are evidence of a designer is not science. The scientific method requires that theory must be able to make predictions that can be disproved. The theory of intelligent design can not be prove wrong because it makes no such predictions.

Answer 2

First of all evolution is theory and as such is not proven to be factual. There is much evidence to support said theory but not enough to make it a law. It also goes against many peoples religious beliefs and thus could possibly be considered some sort of violation there.

On the other side, letting a religion remove a popularly accepted theory that does have much evidence to support it would be, once again, a violation of peoples rights.

What it needs to come down to is are people going to be prepared scientifically for the future if we remove the teaching of evolution or are they going to be considered less qualified because of it. Think of it this way, if a few parents believed that the Holocaust was a conspiracy and never happened, should those parents have the right to remove holocaust teachings from the history books.

Answer 3

Be sure to read "The Case for a Creator" by Lee Strobel. Lee Strobel said of himself, "My road to atheism was paved by science...but, ironically, so was my later journey to God." Lee Strobel, educated at Yale Law School, was the award-winning editor of the Chicago Tribune and a spiritual skeptic until 1981.

In recent years, a diverse and impressive body of research has increasingly supported the conclusion that the universe was intelligently designed. At the same time, Darwinism has faltered in the face of concrete facts and hard reason.

Answer 4

I'd tell them, it is not nice to fool mother nature.