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Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
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Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:29:51 GMT
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Tim Culberson wrote:
> Guy Albertelli wrote:
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> > Schoolbooks due suffer from a variety of errors. This however is not
> > because Darwinian Evolution is wrong, but rather because the people writing
> > the books are more interested in selling them then getting their facts
> > right.
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> So how can one say that issuing a misleading textbook without pointing
> out the BLATANT errors isn't misleading the student?
Sounds like the Bible to me. Pot - kettle - black.
> > Kids are generally not good scientists, and can only see things in black
> > and white. So we give the best start we can along the best guess we have by
> > presenting it as the TRUTH, and hope that they will also devlop some
> > critical thinking skills along the way so can accept new good data, reject
> > bad data, and be able to create new hypotheses, and test them on their own.
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> So then you wouldn't have a problem if I were teaching your child to
> issue a Bible to each student in my class and teach them about Creation
> from the Genesis record?
In the US? Damned straight I would - Separation of Church and State, remember?
Now, if it were a PRIVATE school, more power to you. But if a public school that
gets MY tax money, that Bible had better stay out of it.
> I'll give them the best start I can along with
> the best guess I have by presenting it as the TRUTH, and hope that they
> will also develop some critical thinking skills along the way so they
> can accept new good data, reject bad data, and be able to create new
> hypotheses, and test them on their own.
You should follow your own ideals - how you could possibly believe the Earth is
6K years old after using the above skills, I can't imagine.
--
Tom Stangl
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