Sorry, but I somehow missed you post where you provided a scientific alternative to evolution. It's a shame if you don't have one, because most of this thread has been taken up with bitching and moaning about not being able to teach alternatives. And here you have an entire state that has guaranteed the right of teachers and school boards to teach scientific alternatives to evolution.
I’m just shocked...all this moaning and groaning about keeping God out of science class and you still somehow missed what it is EXACTLY that you’re endlessly fretting over and complaining about?
Sheesh, maybe you’re getting all riled up over nothing all this time!?
Maybe it’s nothing more than a few paragraphs in a book in chapter one, and you mean to tell me all this time you were worried to death there’d be music and crying and kids crawling on their knees...and finding God in science class ???
What a real kick in the head THAT would be, ‘eh?
BTW, as I’ve said all along, keep evolution, just allow students to understand that there is another theory that better explains to some folks our origins and it’s called “intelligent design” that explains some of the gaping holes in evolution theory.
I don’t know if I’d tweak it any per se, or rename it (yet again) which IMO was a mistake because even though it is the nature of Christians to bend over backwards to accomodate those that disagree with them, more people now understand that there simply IS no negotiating with fascists...
but a theory that supposes there indeed IS ‘intelligence’ as well as purposeful ‘design’ in ‘creation’, call it creationism, ID I don’t really care what it’s called, and you could have a big bang event just as the godless do I suppose...it’s all conjecture and therefore indeed theory after all.
and there IS order, and purpose, and design and not so much randomness, (although there could be some) and all we know was NOT NECESSARILY as evolution theory/Darwinism proposes.
If you’re searching for details, I don’t know how important that is in the lower grades, but can be introduced just like concepts are for any subject as you progress through the grades.
I’m not a teacher of theories of origin science to young children, I teach scientific principles to adults in nursing and use nursing care plans to teach, so if you seriously thought I was going to come up with some elaborate pages long ID theory, then you really SHOULD be sorry...
to yourself!
I’m sure competent Christian grade school science teachers will come up with something you can dwell on soon enough though!
You’d think that someone who puts all his eggs in the one basket of evolution would have SOME concept of patience!
but there IS that nagging aspect of godless socialism and petulant god-hate thing going on with you though, so...