my kids are learning evolution, ok but are the teachers required to tell them that its a bunch on nonsense?

Answer 1

Teachers have an obligation to teach the truth, or as educated people call it "facts." Whether or not your religion adheres to reality and believes in facts is your own business.

Evolution is a fact of life. It exists whether you want it to or not. Unlike creationism, there is an abundance of hard evidence supporting it.

Teaching mysticism is not the job of schools. Educating children with real-world knowledge is the job of schools. If you have a problem with your kids learning the truth about the world, don't send them to school. But for the love of whatever stupid deity you believe in, let them have a real education so they can figure out that the garbage you expose them to on Sunday is bullsh*&.

Answer 2

From my understanding, teachers are required to teach what they were told to teach based upon a curriculum. The minute a teacher says things like "this is a bunch of nonsense", he or she is expressing his or her PERSONAL viewpoint and is in some ways brainwashing the children to follow his or her viewpoint. I knew a teacher once who persistently said "women's menstruation re-occurs with every change of the moon"...he would repeat things at random that had nothing to do with the curriculum to show off HOW MUCH knowledge he possessed and he always had to be RIGHT about everything - so much so that he verbally "put down" a student for disagreeing with him who was far more intelligent than he. Go figure! At some points, people felt like he was imposing his ways of thinking of the world, rather than simply teach. I say - if the teacher doesn't like what he's teaching, teach a different course. The teacher will also appear hypocritical and as though he or she hates his or her job. It might even confuse the students! Evolution should be taught as "theory", not a fact...for there are many theories of how humans came into existence or if we are even in existence as we speak! I'm babbling...so I think I'll stop.

Answer 3

Of course not! Evolution, or the science of how the earth and life began, is a broadly based study covering geology, animal life and the growth of species. Since there's so much proof continuing to be found in rocks, fossils, and the ongoing wonders of cellular biology, it can't be shoved aside or considered nonsense. Most kids are fascinated with the mysteries of prehistoric critters, geologic time-lines and early man's development and can fold this knowledge into their general education. No teacher should be pressured into a requirement to say that such a body of scientific knowledge is "nonsense"....any more than a teacher should be required to teach that gravity is a matter of opinion.

Answer 4

Dear Mr. Creationist (or whatever your handlers tell you to call it this week),

Another 30 board-feet of pasting the same arguments does not change the fact that they are still as wrong as when we debunked them all the first time.

You have absolutely zero ability to comprehend what you paste, and as such, when you come across the same argument already shredded here at a later date it appears brand new to you. It is a truly sad state, and you need to grasp that you only highlight your own mental deficiency by persisting with the cut and paste marathon.

Were you able, on even the simplest level, to grasp the concepts involved, you would recognize the repetitive nature of your posts. As it is, you do not even have that elementary comprehension of the topic at hand.

Sadly, this is how creationism works, they rely on the vehement and vociferous response of their most ignorant and uneducated of followers to speak for them. They pot up the article, fully knowing the lies, distortions, and misleading nature of them and wait for people like you to cry them from the mountaintops.

We know the creationist movement to be dishonest to it's core, because the articles they produce requires a pretty decent knowledge of astronomy, cosmology, geology, anthropology, and a variety of other sciences... yet it is deliberately twisted and distorted in to outright lies. And this is not the type of misunderstanding that comes from a bad grasp of the topic, it required in-depth lies and trickery to produce.

So climb that mountain again, Rainman, and tell us again how wrong we are.

Answer 5

spirit guide 111,

Teachers are required to teach the current state of knowledge that we have gained about the universe, and that includes the theory of evolution. If something was complete nonsense, it would not have been ingrained for years in the public education system to begin with. The teachers at your children's school are doing their JOBS and teaching your children real science, and if you have a problem with that, you need to remove your children from public schools and send them to a school that teaches your beliefs. You have every right to do this. You do NOT, however, have the right to demand that your children's teachers label well established science as nonsense.

If you have published thousands of scientific articles outlining evidence for whatever theory you have (as evolutionist scientists have done), then go to your children's school board, ask them to review your findings, and push to have your theory taught in schools.

If you have not, stop your whining and allow public school science teachers to do their jobs.

Answer 6

could not resist telling you what my boy, (7) said only hour's ago. he's sleeping godlessly at the moment, yet then we were in hot milk and honey mode and he was telling me what he had learnt in school. (the only time he will say anything more than "good" about school, those minutes they steal post milk, story and kisses). they were learning about how we originated out of the primordial sea's and first walked on land, you know?, that proven theory, with countless museums of real evidence. "well dad! did you know that some people don't believe in dinosaurs? and Mary even showed us the foggels (fossils) in the stone". Mary being the museum visitor today. So i get it that you have your belief, but weather you like it or not, unless you come from another planet science is god on this planet. not because we want to fight with Christan's, but because it's the real, the proven, the fact and what i want my child to learn. Hence i appose respectfully...

Answer 7

Absolutely not. I'm proud that in my country no form of knowledge is given the official status of 'nonsense' by the education system. Thankfully, our schools are not required to prioritise one theory over another. Such prejudices were rejected decades ago.

Answer 8

Why would you think that teachers should be required to tell children that scientific fact is nonsense? Have you ever heard of "separation of church and state?" It's guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America? Or do you think our Constitution is nonsense, too?

Answer 9

No they aren't required to tell them it's nonsense.
Seems like a pretty logical theory to me. Nothing has been proven yet.

But if you are one of THOSE christians....as ricky retardo told Lucy "let me esplain..."

GOD made us in his likeness...note he did not leave behind his lab notes. He may have decided to evolve us from apes and not just plop us down as we are....purely to mess with the heads of uptight morons such as yourself. I've got news for you....maybe he brought human out of prehistoric frog crap, or maybe the first human shot out of the crack of some gorilla making her the first surrogate mother. It is obvious that GOD allowed other creatures to roam the earth before we got here. Just accept the fact that you are here, try not to let all the BS get in the way.

This is the reason my pastor always says "I believe and have faith in God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. But I'm not religious. Because you religious people give christians a bad name."

Answer 10

Who cares if it's nonsense or not. It matters not a bit. We are all humans on Earth living out our lives, why waste time thinking about how we got here? When instead you can think about what you are going to do with the time that you are given to spend here.