Is it truly fair that students have to learn about evolution and the big bang?

Question

I don't believe it's fair that we are forced to learn this when there are sooo many different creation stories. I am a christian high school freshmen and was very annoyed by the whole concept! Your opinion?

Oh and by the way....evolution has been proven wrong in many scenarios....so i consider it a story as well

Answer 1

Yes, though the system sucks but it will be you who do the judging.

Answer 2

As a high school freshman you should learn the course material in SCIENCE. Evolution and the Big Bang are a PART of science. They illustrate principles of SCIENCE, not Religion. Creationism is Religion and NOT Science. You are free to believe in whatevery you wish to believe in but in your Science class you STILL must learn the basic principles of Science. It's NOT a matter of fairness, it's a matter of learning what Science is and the principles involved.

Of, and for your information, Evolution has NOT been disproved as a principle, ONLY dis[proved as to the actual corse that evolution has taken. Evolution is a FACT, not a theory. Modern agriculture is VERY dependent on the fact that evolution exists. the rules of heredity and genetic change determine which crops are able to be planted where and when. Many modern crops simply can't reproduce with the original wild strains that existed hundreds and thousands of years ago without those wild strains actually being cloned into the modern strains. For all effects and purposes, they ARE new species and not the original species that existed in the wild of long ago.

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 3

You're also not very open minded.

Students are learning Science, therefore they learn the different stories of the beginning of the universe from a Scientific perspective. Teachers cannot teach a certain perspective as absolute truth. Science has yet to prove the exact origin of the universe, and until it does, children have to be taught about the different possibilities.

When they take a course on Christianity, or go to a Christian school, then they can learn the story of creation as told in Genesis.

You have no reason to be offended, you need to grow up and get over it. You may not agree with everything that you're learning, but the teacher is the one deciding what's on the test, not you. Through out your life, you're going to meet many, many people that believe different than you do, and you can't get offended by it. People have the right to believe what they want to believe.

Answer 4

First, don't be afraid of the Big Bang. It is very friendly to theism (the universe exploded into existence from nothing), and presents more problems for atheism.

Second, having to learn a theory of origins is not bad, but the enforced monopoly on education that evolution has is bad. Note that the theory has so many difficulties that materialists are forced to resort to such harebrained supporting theories as multiverses (an infinity of physical universes), directed panspermia (aliens brought life here), and punctuated equilibrium (evolution occurs in giant leaps).

I recommend just keeping yourself informed on your own via publications of some Intelligent Design proponents (William Dembski, Jonathan Wells, Phillip Johnson, etc.).

Hang in there . . .

Answer 5

Unless you are going to a christian high school, yes I think it is not only fair, it is the schools responsibility. A christian high school should teach both creation (during religion class) and evolution (during science class). But a public high school doesn't have religion classes so teaching creation would not be on the curriculum. However, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't teach science as it stands today. Whether or not we personally agree with evolution, it is the most commonly accepted scientific theory of the progression of man. Every child should be taught the latest information and let each child draw there own conclusions based on the information given. But it's wrong to withhold the information.

Answer 6

Your rant is slapping science in the face.

Here's one for you:

1. Get off the internet because you dont believe in electricity
2. Switch off all the lightbulbs you dont believe in Argon you cant see it.
3. Dont you dare open your fridge and never drink milk! Not for a second, you don't believe in pasteurisation.
4. Don't go to the hospital, there's no cells in the human body, we're made from .... clay.
5. Infact, why are you on even standing on two legs? You should be floating.. theres no such thing as gravity.

Your religious backward-thinking is outdated and frankly embarassing.

People deserve to learn that which can be proven rather than fairy tales in the 21st Century.

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How many times has religion been proven wrong by science? Infact... the world is still flat y'know.

Evolution: you have cells in your body, they adapt to stimuli
Religion: god made us from clay

Big bang: the chemicals which formed the universe came from an explosion which FOLLOWS AN EQUASION
Religion: God made the earth. nuff sed. So he didn't make the rest of the milky way then...?

Geez.

Answer 7

Sure it is fair! The idea that science and religion fundamentally conflict is very much a minority opinion. There are still a few vocal advocates; however, I think the great majority of scientists — including atheist and agnostic scientists — would agree that science and religion can at least co-exist. Many of the great scientists of the past and the present have been and are Christians, who see no conflict between their science and their faith.

What is not fair is that there are some aspects of evolution that have opposing viewpoints by reputable scientists and this should at least be addressed as well! Advances in world of cosmology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, biology in this age is amazing and I think will bolster your faith in the Creator!

Answer 8

No it is not fair, but our education system has become indoctrinated by the anti-God establishment, and thereby continues to indoctrinate young, impressionable minds in order to spread anti-religious ideologies. The more they tell themselves that evolution is fact, the more they believe the lie.

Evolution is taught as if it were fact, while it is absolutely not. Micro evolution is well known as gradual adaptation within a species. Macro evolution or the evolution of one species into another completely different species is what is completely ridiculous. Human beings did not evolve from apes, or any ape ancestors. Birds are not lizards and Fish never became land animals. Amphibians are not fish. Mammals such as dolphins and whales do not just spontaneously grow useless limbs in the hopes of one day leaving the sea and taking a walk on dry land. It's a poor fantasy.

Dogs and cats cannot mate, and neither can humans and animals. They call us animals...and claim that we all evolved from a common ancestor...and if that were true we would "all" be related genetically, humans, apes, bears, cats, cows, slugs etc...sharing the very same genetic makeup if life did evolve from the same biological primordial ooze...and should then be able to mate with any other being on earth and produce viable offspring. Some animals such as horses and zebras, and donkeys can mate but their offspring is sterile.

Yet, as we are told in the Bible, animals were made according to their kind. It's why no other animal can mate with a different species and produce viable offspring thereby producing a new species. Geneticists can play at being little gods all day long, but they are not God and they cannot make anything from nothing as only God can.

We were made with a specific purpose by God. All things were made with purpose, and it was certainly not an accident caused by an immense explosion that just happened to "organize" all the building blocks of life just so, in such a way that all life came into being on the "ONE" planet we can be absolutely sure life exists with the maximum abundance. Realistically, when one thinks of an explosion, we think destruction, not creation. When a nuclear bomb exploded over Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan life didn't suddenly just pop into being...it ceased to be as an effect of the explosion. Only an All powerful God could cause an explosion that resulted with the creation of the Universe and all life.

Take Care and God Bless you!

Wat many people seem not to understand is that if Creation by God is true as the Bible says, and as I personally believe it to be, then it opens up an entirely different "Pandora's box" of scientific possibility. Following the idea that evolution is true only allows for further failures in science. Accepting God's authority and that all things in existence have a purpose and specific design would lead scientists more directly towards the truth, than their blind searching for some useless justification of evolution.

Randomness is not a starting point. Purpose is. God is the only perfect starting point. Science without God is simply vanity. Science with God is blessed.

Answer 9

#1--Evolution has *never* been proven wrong. That is not true at all.

#2--Yes, I think it's fair that students have to learn about evolution. It is a legitimate scientific theory, with evidence to back it up. If you want to then decide to ignore the mountains of evidence in favor of a book written over 2000 years ago by uneducated superstitious middle eastern sheep herders, then you can decide to do that.
However, it is the obligation of those in charge of educating you to make sure that you're educated about what *science* is out there. They are not obligated to educate you about superstitions. We're sorry that you don't LIKE it, but science is science, and science is not always going to tell you what you WANT to hear. That's the facts of life.
The day that creationists can come up with a single scrap of legitimate evidence to support their claims, then their creation stories will be allowed to be taught in school.

Answer 10

well basically your a freshman, so that already means you don't know anything. on top of that, evolution and big bang theory don't pertain to a religious creed, they only contradict one. By all legal rights evolution and big bang theory can be taught in federally funded schools, whereas Christian(or any other religion's)creation stories can't be taught. And i quote "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"(United States Constitution:First Amendment), and that is taken to mean that federal money shall not be used to teach any religion, unless it is done in a purely educational manner(i.e. philosophy class). So you see it only works one way, and not your way.

Answer 11

My opinion? You are very deluded if you cannot accept verified, tested and accepted scientific evidence.

My own parents accept evolution, as do the majority of Christians.

The Southern Baptist Baylor University has one of the finest medical schools and physics departments in the country, and Baylor teaches both of what scare you.

There is a big difference between science and myth. Please don't allow willful ignorance to hold you back. We are in another Golden Age of science and medicine right now, and most of the medical breakthroughs come from studying evolution via reverse engineering.

EDIT: If you think evolution has been proven wrong, then be true to your beliefs and never, EVER visit a doctor again when you need one. Before being recommended for medical school, every student must write a paper showing they understand biological evolution and how to apply it, whether they "believe" it or not.