This is for Americans really. Did anyone here have a teacher that decided to skip it or gloss over it? And did anyone have a science teacher that tried to teach creationism?
I'm British btw. I understand what the law is in America but I'm just wondering how it works in practice. What was your experience?
2007-08-06 08:13:47 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
postalman: We have a national curriculum and evolution is taught without controversy. Perhaps there are a few faith schools that take liberties but their students will have a hard time of it on their GCSE exam.
Obviously, Britain is a lot less religious than America.
2007-08-06 08:37:42 · update #1
I was taught evolution. Never creationism or Intelligent Design. If there were a god, I'd be thankful to it for that!
2007-08-06 08:17:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I went to a private baptist school, and so i was not taught anything more about evolution and how it was wrong. I know i can not give you the proof they gave for how it was wrong and a lie, but they did a great job at it. Somehow they managed to point out all the flaws in the dating systems and used it as a lesson on why Creationism was right. They proved that the earth was only as old as the Bible leads us to believe with their faith.
Yes, we had a creationists faith based science classes. Other than the origin of things, Creationism teaches science much like evolutionism.
Today, i am not a Christian. I am Pagan, and found my path almost 20 years ago. I have a lot of respect for the School i went to... i had a quality education, and college was easy.
I still have a hard time understanding evolution... though admittedly i have never been interested in it enough to study it. If i have to pin myself down on a therory, i believe a little of both, i guess.
My belief is that it is all therory and i have better things to worry about. A lot of people get up in arms over it.
I am a Reverand in the Pagan community now, and I went to school in Virginia, USA.
2007-08-06 08:32:58 · answer #2 · answered by willodrgn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost all teachers in high school gloss over evolution. This is because there is an immense amount of science to it and not enough time to cover it. Basically, 80% of the population is ignorant to most of the science behind it. I would say at least 50% think we evolved from modern monkeys and mutation is the only way a gene pool can change. I was taught evolution in high school, but learned most of it from college and extra personal reading/research.
2007-08-06 08:29:17 · answer #3 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was taught evolution in biology I and II, even though I had a Christian teacher. She cannot gloss over or completely skip an explanation for how things came to be simply because she doesn't agree with it. It's a scientific theory and it has respectable evidence. Someone could get in a lot of trouble for glossing over a part of the text book because they don't like it.
"Well, I don't agree with gravity or any of Newton's laws because of God and ascension, so I'm not going to teach them about it."
It's unethical.
2007-08-06 08:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by Alley S. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
basically those without young toddlers who do not comprehend what the college curriculum is, those with young toddlers at school who do not shop music or perhaps consult with their young toddlers approximately what's being taught at school, people who have no theory even though it sounds sturdy to them simply by fact that prayer isn't allowed at school, and idiots. Evolution is addressed, yet to not the component of there being a classification strictly for it.
2016-11-11 09:26:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My high school biology teacher taught us the basic principles of evolution as outlined in our textbook (about 6 paragraphs maybe) but it made it clear that he believes the Genesis account. Then we all had to write essays on how we personally believed the universe came into being. In short, it wasn't taught.
2007-08-06 08:21:14 · answer #6 · answered by meagain 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My teacher just skipped over it entirely, which is really sad, considering that everyone should learn about evolution regardless of their beliefs. It's a science class and no one can teach science for fear of offending someone. It really needs to change so we can learn the accepted theory of how we got on this planet, but if we (Americans) are still being led by someone who knows nothing about science, it won't change.
2007-08-06 08:23:13 · answer #7 · answered by Maya 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was taught evolution, and was expected to quote examples of observed speciation on my final.
We also got the proper definition of theory.
This fact, these requirements were why we insisted we move back to beautiful New York State for my son's High School education. We were living in PA when the Dover nonsense started.
REGENTS! FTW!
(Edit: We have state-wide standards for college prep classes)
2007-08-06 08:17:36 · answer #8 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes I was taught evolution in both my biology class and psychology class. No, I never had a teacher teach creationism in public school.
How does it work for you?
2007-08-06 08:25:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was taught as a scientific model that best explains life on Earth given all the current data.
I never even heard of Creationism until a religous/political groups started making noise about it.
2007-08-06 08:22:48 · answer #10 · answered by Alan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was taught evolution in high school and I believe all schools in America should be required to teach at least 1 semester of evolution to students.
2007-08-06 08:17:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋