Is teaching evolution as truth socially responsible?

Question

Since our public schools are teaching students to be atheists, then why should we be surprised when kids start killing each other? This didn't happen until the prevalence of teaching evolution arose. Coincidence? I think not!

Look. The examples given are of the "micoevolution" sort. However, even "microevolution" is gentically based, not actual evolution.

And, yes, evolution theory=no God, so obviously, it is atheism being taught as opposed to independent thinking.

Answer 1

I believe that it is most certainly a contributor to our social dilemma's we are facing today.
You can lump in other issues that were 'implanted' by the humanists to serve their agendas:
* mandatory sex education classes
* removal of prayer in schools
ah, yes also (had a class in HS promoting this....)
* over-zealousness of those who claim to protect children from their parent's corrective measures [in an effort to stop child abuse...instead the opposite has occurred whereby parents are fearful and ignore being involved in their children's upbringing {another form of child abuse...uh huh!}]
Told in my HS class to not use the word NO, and to refrain from any physical paddling...now we have the 2nd generation of kids growing up as wild banshees.

In any case, Ben Stein has produced a movie that is coming out in February 2008 that address' the issue of Evolution and how the Scientific Community is handling their scientists who have offered a different perspective other than Darwinism.

I've attached the link - great material!

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Answer 2

>"Since our public schools are teaching students to be atheists, then why should we be surprised when kids start killing each other?"

Say what? On what basis are you saying that "public schools are teaching students to be atheists"? That statement has absolutely zero basis in fact.

Your logic is based on the premise that evolution=atheism. And since 40% of scientists (who overwhelmingly support evolution) believe in God ... and millions of Christians and members of other religions accept evolution (including the official position of Catholicism, the largest Christian denomination on the planet, with over 1 billion members) ... there is absolutely ZERO basis for associating evolution with atheism.

Zero. None. Nada. Niente. Nix.

>"This didn't happen until the prevalence of teaching evolution arose. Coincidence? I think not!"

Check again. It is absurd to suggest that the teaching of evolution is some sort of "recent" thing that coincided with school shootings. Evolution has been taught steadily in schools since the 1920s (remember the Scopes trial, 1925? That was an attempt to get evolution *out* of schools ... which shows that you don't know much history if you think evolution is a recent addition to school curricula).

But even moreso, these school shootings also coincided with a recent resurgence of *creationism* (the advent of "creation science" in the 1980's, and "intelligent design" in the 1990's).

Hmmmm.

Answer 3

I am a science teacher in a public school and teach evolution. I am teaching 9th graders, and we concentrate more on the areas of evolution that do not involve humans because of parents who might be offended. Evolution is about to the point of being accepted as truth. You can watch evolution in a petri dish, and you can watch it in your own body when your strep throat or ear infection becomes resistant to the antibiotics you take. You can watch evolution in action when you think about the real reason we don't have a cure for AIDS. Evolution is a science, and science is taught in public schools. I teach my students when they ask about human evolution that they need to draw their own conclusions and believe what they want to believe. Many students now believe in evolution along with creationism and think that both played a role in human development. I don't really think that kids killing each other has to do with teaching evolution, but hey, who knows? Perhaps it is the degradation of society as a whole and a lack or respect all around.

Answer 4

ummm I'm religious and I don't want religion taught in science class sry. It's science, and science has THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. That method challeges your belifes and etc... You should just belive in god and have faith. And we are allowed to have our own belifes. And as a student, NO EVOLUTION in science def. DOES NOT cause violence. The kids that do all that crap, don't even listen in class anyway. Seriously, think about what kind of kids your talking about. It's unethical to force religion on others, and it will make kids unintrested in science. To me science is gods handywork. But no everyone belives that, and they shouldn't be forced. I'd quite science class if they started teaching this way and I want to be a doctor. But I'd lose all intrest in even showing up to class because I want to learn science in science class not religion. Leave the two sepret like the Constitution says.

Answer 5

If people spent more time studying history in school and less time worrying what was being taught in biology class they might relalize that the history of man is a history of violence. Billy the Kid had killed twenty men before he was twentyone. Alexander the Great had concoured half the known world at that age. We have been killing ouselves since the dawn of time and the ones doing it have often been teenage boys, they make the best soldiers and thefore the best killers. So to answer your question, yes coincidence.

Answer 6

This is just one of the many ills in our society. Christians are made out to be the bad guys, because we take a stand on moral issues, and others just want us to "mind our business". Sports figures and movie stars are idolized and rewarded immensely, and yet most live immoral and reckless lives. Evolution is taught as fact, and other concepts, such as Creation, are ignored and even ridiculed.

The Bible says, "woe to those who call evil good, and good evil", and we are living out that woe.

Evolution teaches that we all came to be by accident, which steals away our significance. If I came from a rock, or from some galactic soup, or even from a monkey, why should I be morally accountable for anything? It is not surprising to me that the further our society gets away from God, and away from the concept that we were created by God for a purpose, the closer we get to acting like animals.

Answer 7

so, instead, we need to force religion upon young minds instead of giving them the chance to grow, mature, and make their own, thought based choice?

kids starting killing eachother when parents stopped raising them correctly, and stopped spanking them. they let their children control them, begging and pleading for the child to "please be quiet, honey" in the middle of public, instead of giving them a slap on the rear.