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vegan atheist indy
- Sep 27, 2008
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As a Christian, I don't care what anyone else chooses to believe, or what they choose to teach their own children, but don't be pushing your fantasy on me or my kids. Believe what you want but teaching a theory to a captive audience (school children) as fact, is not education, it's indoctrination and should not be allowed.
Except when it is established fact by science. Teaching kids religious fairy tales as myth is indoctrination. Teaching mods demonstrable scientific facts is the right thing to do to keep our populations keen on the reality before us.
A moron is a word ignorant people use to label others they disagree with but cannot explain why... Darwin clearly thought the finches were various species called finch. He had no clue that the beaks only represented variations within one species that interbreed freely. And what you say is correct. Unless one is willing to try to explain various interpretations of data but limit one's presentation to the explanation of only one view (secular or not) that instructor, institution, etc., is indoctrinating and not teaching anything. And the public school system of the United States has been proven to not be much better than a place for target practice by individuals such institutions previously indoctrinated...
Evolution is both a demonstrated, observable fact and a theory that explains all of the evidence we find in the archaeological record and in genetics. The probability that it is wrong at this point being corroborated by many disciplines- biology, geology, archaeology, immunology, and others, is low as to be laughably absurd. Meanwhile, you read a book and concluded its truth value without outside evidence, and attempt to criticize epistemologies who draw justifiable conclusions using evidence, sound logic and reason. Take your kid out of school if you must, but creationism will never be taught in schools.