Science, faith clash in class

Baltimore Sun ^ | November 27, 2005 | Arthur Hirsch

[durasell]

Relax. Science marches on. Just not in the U.S.

[RadioAstronomer]

herbology and biology. LOL!

[RadioAstronomer]

Indeed.

[RadioAstronomer]

My, you're up early!

Nope. :-) Up late. Was in the ER most of the evening. (I am OK BTW)

[durasell]

Here's a realy interesting experiment. Ask five people where the internet came from and four of those five will make a joke about Al Gore, though not know the answer.

[RadioAstronomer]

Heck, ask five people what the orbit period of the Earth is. LOL!

[RadioAstronomer]

Ask five people where the internet came from and four of those five will make a joke about Al Gore, though not know the answer.

I hear ya.

[mlc9852]

Sorry - glad to hear you're okay and ready to freep!

[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks. :-)

Lost partial vision in one eye. Figured that was important enough to see the docs. They fixed me up. :-)

[durasell]

Truthfully, I'm been thinking of this issue more than I probably should. I don't see a way out.

[RadioAstronomer]

Well I have been fighting the good fight here for almost 5 years. Not much has changed I think.

[RadioAstronomer]

I am dog tired. I am off to bed.

[durasell]

take care

[RadioAstronomer]

You also! :-)

[Free Baptist]

"It is not their place to determine the educational standards. If they will not do their jobs they need to be fired immediately."

If the content of instruction is influenced and moderated by PARENTS (parental pressure) of the children being instructed, then the teachers ARE doing their job. The decisions in these matters need to be deferred to the PARENTS more than to the university social engineers in the education departments.

Our children are home schooled. AND our property tax bill reveals that we are forced nonetheless to help finance the government's education system. We are DETERMINED that we WILL have some say-so regarding educational content. We can see some of the state's education standards manifested in the young people that get off the school bus at our street corner. Some of what we see is the result of parental neglect "next door." And much of what we see comes out of the government school classrooms.

[wyattearp]

The vast majority of teachers are liberals. Do you really want them teaching religion?

Which of the many, many religious versions of creationism would you like them to teach as science? Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Indian, Wiccan, Scientology, Pagan, the list goes on and on. Be careful what you wish for, unless you want your kids coming home believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[Forte Runningrock]

A designer doesn't necessarily mean God. Creation means someone, something created everything. It has no impact on the study of the creation.
Evolutionists like to make a big assumption here and say these people are teaching religion. NOT TRUE.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping. I don't think this thread qualifies for the list.

Junior?

[mlc9852]

The FSM is getting so old and so are your arguments. The fact is there are liberal AND conservative teachers. My kids had mostly conservative because we live in a conservative area. Creationism and God were discussed in science class. It was no big deal.

[wyattearp]

The fact is there are liberal AND conservative teachers.

And you're ok with both liberals and conservatives having equal time teaching their religious beliefs to children as science. Got it.