Thursday, March 4, 2010
Evolution...Fake?
Since the discovery of evolution by Charles Darwin it has been an extremely heated debate between the Church and creationism and science. The church firmly believe in it's 7 day theory of how God created the earth around 6000 or so years ago as the bible says, but of course science completely disproves this theory. However there are many people out there who don't believe in science and evolution and all the evidence that carbon dating and research has shone, but decide to believe what somebody wrote down 3000 years ago as complete truth. Not only do they believe in this almost completely proposterous story that has been disproved but have for years fought to keep real science out of school and instead teach kids creationism. I and many other people believe that religion has no place in public schools in our country other than to educate people about the general ideas of it. But now these anti evolutionists have put their bill together with a logical bill which states you should have to teach both sides of global warming, because with this there is actually somewhat logical arguments on both sides of the issue. A bill introduced in Kentucky which states that teachers should be encouraged to discuss, "the advantages and disadvantages of scientific theories". This almost shocked me when I read it, that these people want to completely eliminate the fact that religion is kept out of government, in this case education, and teach both sides of issue when one side is science and one side is not only not proven but has been disproven. People cannot handle the fact that now science can fill the void that for thousands of years people tried to fill with religion, one of those things being how the earth was created, a common story found in almost every religion. These people are angry because they believe science is "overstepping their bounds" and researching in areas they should not be such as religion. Their fine with medicine and other areas of science but just not an area that disproves a belief that has been held for thousands of years but now is not relevant. Although I believe the creation story is a good lesson I think that it has no relevance today as fact and should not be in our schools for any reason espeically as a dissenter to evolution. What do you think about the bills that are being proposed? Do you think creationism should be taught? Here is a link to an article on the matter
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". Their fine with medicine and other areas of science but just not an area that disproves a belief that has been held for thousands of years but now is not relevant."
ReplyDeleteI think this is an especially good point. No one will disagree with medicine or, say, computer science, but evolution is fair game-- and global warming. Germ theory is assumed to be true, but according to the article, scientific theories can have downsides, and crazy fringe criticism with no scientific merit has to be given its fair share...
Having a discussion in class about what science is, what the purpose of science is, about ethics and science, and about science's limitations is very important. But the "downside of theories" seems off the mark by a long shot.
I love this part of the article:
"he was motivated not by religion but by what he saw as a distortion of scientific knowledge. "
So he is just trying to protect scientific "knowledge?"
"“Our kids are being presented theories as though they are facts,” he said."
This guy doesn't even know the definition of a theory and what a theory is relative to facts (a theory is a unifier of many facts-- in the case of evolution, countless facts) and here he is trying to say he is concerned with scientific knowledge. It's sad that people are this mind-bogglingly stupid, and can be elected for office regardless.
It's also startling that this article doesn't clearly state off the bat that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Instead it says that "mainstream scientists" see nothing wrong with evolutionary theory. :/