Do you think evolution should be an optional course?

Question

I know a lot of people believe strongly in evolution, but I also know a lot of people don't. I believe God created Adam and Eve. I don't see our resemblence to monkies. Anyone agree?

I was taught that there are different theories about evolution, some saying apes, some saying monkies. I'm sorry if its just apes and I offended someone by saying monkies, but that is what I was taught.

Answer 1

I dont think it should be taught at all. Its a lie with no scientific evidence, plus it is a religion. Most people will argue that point but they have less evidence of evolution than creation and it takes a lot more faith to believe in evolution.

Since Darwin wrote "Origin of a Species, By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" (I use the whole name of the book just to show how racist this theory is) many harmful things have been done to human beings in its name. One of the first was a man named Ernst Haeckel falsified drawings of human embros to claim they had tails and fish gills in early stages of developement. He later admitted to falsifiying the drawings. The really sad part to this story is that those same drawings are being used in textbooks today to teach evolution even after Haeckel admitted to falsifiying them over 100 years ago.
Then they discovered Piltdown Man which was another forgery to try and prove evolution. Piltdown Man consisted of two human skulls, an orangutan jaw, an elephant molar, a hippopotamus tooth, and a canine tooth from a chimpanzee. The sad part of this story was it was 40 years before it was examined and proved to be a hoax. Why do you think scientist would purposely mislead people to make them think evolution is true? Why dont they just report the facts?

Hitler was a firm believer in evolution. He wrote a book called "Mein Kampf" Translated means my struggle. Look again at the name of Darwins book. Hitler thought that the Aerian Race was the most favored race and tried to help evolution along by exterminating lesser races. Hitler also had a belief that if you tell a lie long enough people will believe it. Read some of the answers here and it wont take you long to realize how true that is.

On hitlers birthday in 1999 two teenagers named Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up Columbine High School. Both were avid evolutionist one even wearing a shirt that said Natural Selection while terrorizing the school.

Other things done to help support this theory of evoultion would include killing Tasmanian Aborigines because they have large jaw bones and would make great examples of evoultion. In 1904 a pygmy by the name of Ota Benga was put on display with species of monkeys at the World Fair in St. Louis. He was later put on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York before finally committing suicide.

This theory is very dangerous and should not be taught anywhere.

Answer 2

No, I don't think it should be optional. By learning evoution, you are not forced to believe in it. But you will be a better person if you have a wide range of knowledge about things, including those you don't believe with. You'll also look a lot less ignorant. Also, the concept of evolution is real. Whether or not humans evolved from monkies can't really be proved (some would argue this, though), animals evolving in small ways over time is a real thing and happens a lot (over a long, long, LONG time, of course).

Answer 3

No it should not be an optional course. Evolution is fact and must be part of every biology class. You obviously didn't pay any attention during that part of biology otherwise you wouldn't make the claim about our resemblance to monkeys. Evolution has never made the claim that man evolve from monkeys. Man and the great apes are from a common ancestor. Also interesting to note that man and apes share 98% of the same DNA. You want to live in the dark ages and blindly follow a 1,700 year old book written by men then go to a private religious school.

Answer 4

Evolution is not a course. It is a foundational theory of biology. There is no better scientific explanation of why we see the number and type of organisms on Earth today. To say that it is only a course is to undermind everything that is currently known about biology.

Feel free to have whatever beliefs you want. Evolution is not a belief system. It is science.

Answer 5

It isn't a matter of belief. It's a matter of known scientific facts. If you are going to take biology courses, you are going to be taught that which is understood - not "believed" - to be an essential part of that curriculum. Do you think science courses should stop including information about atoms if someone starts a denomination that doesn't accept atoms as fact?? (You do know of course that the existence of atoms is "just a theory"!)

Answer 6

optional course in what? school? evolution is part of biology which is part of science. are you saying biology classes should add genesis to the curriculum? genesis isnt science (its a story made by people who didnt understand how the world was made) and has no science to go along with it. evolution is science and therefore should and is taught in SCIENCE classes.

and yes there are many resemblances between us and the great apes. eyes in front, the nose is similar (not the same but similar) opposable thumbs is a big one, nails instead of claws and more.

Answer 7

Then you might as well not teach biology or chemistry or geology or astronomy. Evolution is fact and is tied into those other disciplines. The catalyst for the evolutionary process may be open to religious or philosophical debate but the fact that evolution as happened and is happening is not.

Answer 8

I hope the U.S does make evolution an option. Then maybe when the U.S. schooling system is ridiculed around the world the fundies will lose the financial power they are wielding in other countries to prop up fundie political parties.

Answer 9

Of course! All the hard courses should be optional. Why try to force people to learn, math, chemistry, physics, geology, biology and other difficult subjects.?

Religion, on the other hand should be mandatory. The benefit is you don't have to learn much and you will have plenty of time for T V !

One more benefit of not learning science is never having to become a liberal!

Answer 10

Creationism has no scientific proof. Thus, the only way to teach Creationism is by reading the Bible, which is and should remain illegal.

Evolution should be mandatory since it is a scientific finding. It may or may not be true, but at least it has its roots in science and not religion.