Why don't we teach both theories in the classroom?

Question

I mean it's just a theory right? So why do we bother even teaching it? I am talking about the theory of gravity of course, I mean why teach something that is just a theory while ignoring other theories. I propose that we start teaching the alternative to the theory of gravity. Intelligent Falling. Now of course if you can't tell I'm being sarcastic here, but I wanted creationist to hear just how dumb they sound to us. Any thoughts?

Wow! There is so many things wrong with "Some Dudes' answer I don't know where to begin......on second though, I'll let him wallow in his igorance.

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Answer 1

That's just outta control thinking, that is! Stop making sense, damn you!!! God says being rational is a sin. A SINNNNNN!

Awesome.

-looks like almost everybody that's answered didn't read the Details part

Answer 2

Well, a theory is a bit more legitimate but I understand your point.

think of it like this? We have a nation, and a big part of it's success depends on the education of its citizenry. What do you want them, to learn? Practical things? There are so many topics in the world that school would not be the right forum for discussing all. Some of it has to be done on your time!

Our educators try to implement sound learning so that people can graduate and get a job in something. Spiritual belief is not that.

Gravity has serious implications to physics and engineering; stuff that has real consequence and can contribute to the over productivity of society.

I'm glad to hear your point and I hope a creationist reads this question and its answers.

Answer 3

Big difference. Gravity is prooven (as prooven as any theory can get anyways, hence it has the status as a "law" and no onger a theory). Evolution is just a thoery as there is no proof for it.

As a matter of fact, there has never been a fossil, not one, showing the half way mark between one species and another, only very minute adaptations, never a full halfway fossil. Plus Evolution cannot explain the Cambrian Period, in which 99% of all known life came into being within a period of 5-10 million years, well less than evolution would prescribe for it. Not can evolution explain how complex items such as an eye came into being. Or the simplistic factor that the strange species that had not yet fully reached a new specied and were literally "half breeds" would not be attractive to mates. The debate doesn't end there by any means, but I have limited space. Do youre research, the experiements of the London months were faked (at the end of the day the moths dont land on the trees they were photographed on, they were put there by the experiementors), along with any other "proof that has ever surfaced.

I'm not discounting evolution. I'm just saying that there are significant holes in the theory. It is probably along the right lines...but comparing it to gravity is a complete mistake. One is all but universally provable. The other is a good idea with far to go.

Answer 4

Your Webster's dictionary will show several different definitions for the word "theory"
1) Abstract thought: speculation
2) A plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomna
The christians will exploit this confusion by incurring that evolution was dreamed up by a drunk in a bar at 2 in the morning. Creationism is ,in fact, taught in schools. In classes for religious studies & mythology. The argument is that it should be taught in the science classes. In the scientific community there is no debate on the subject. It's the creationist that create a controversy that doesn't exist.

Answer 5

Without a missing link or evidence of a mutation that creates extra information into the gene pool, i guess Evolution is just a theory too


If a common ancestor is supposed to become a man by mutation,

but every single mutation so far witnessed leads to retardation, e.g. try fruit flies

then um, how did all the extra information to code for opposable thumbs and enlarged brains enter the gene pool?

One good way of inserting information into gene pools is by having sex and creating offspring with new and recombined dna

but since there were no humans around to introduce human genes, how could this of taken place

can someone please name one, just one, observed mutation, that has led to an increase in genetic information

this is necessary otherwise the process has no new information to work with,

Fruit flies have undergone hundreds of thousands of mutations,

they have doubled wings, grown extra legs, but no new material other than what they already possess has been witnessed

Answer 6

No matter how much I can observe it right here and right now, I will NOT accept your THEORY of gravity. The Bible doesn't say that's how the earth works. It's just a theory, which means it has to have evidence to back it up, but still just a theory.

Answer 7

Awww, man - And I thought I was about to get a drink!

You FLICKING tease!

And, of course you are right. But the fact is that while Gravity, Mathematics and evolution are all theories, intelligent design is not a theory.

"One requirement of science is that it makes specific predictions, which can be tested in a laboratory." states geologist Robert Hazen "Another requirement is that it does not rely on supernatural or miraculous processes."

Answer 8

There's also Unintelligent Falling, as proven by the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers and other classic thologists of decades past (back when the world was provably black and white).

I say all three theories should be taught!

Answer 9

I fully support Intelligent Falling being taught in remedial logic classes as an example of complete idiocy. Along with creationism.

Answer 10

Good point. They currently teach children that they came from ooze.

Big bang THEORY
THEORY of evolution

Although hundreds of artifacts and documents validate the authenticity of the Bible, people are biased against it.

Children are not educated enough to ask how did organic life spontaneously spring from inorganic matter.