The curiosity of children is a precious thing because curiosity is what makes scientific progress possible. Christianity kills their curiosity.

This letter to the editor of the New York Times shows one of the many reasons why religious indoctrination is child abuse.

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April 27, 2012

The Creationist and the Polar Bear

To the Editor:

Re “Investigating Mysteries of Polar Bears’ Ancestry With a DNA Lens” (news article, April 20):

What child isn’t fascinated by the size, color and power of polar bears? Or further intrigued to learn that these beautiful creatures aren’t simply recent descendants of the brown bear but, as discovered through DNA study, split from a common ancestor more than 600,000 years ago?

How does the creationist science teacher offer such interesting material to the curious child without dulling that curiosity by denying both the evolutionary evidence and thus the DNA science that leads to such curiosity in a potential budding scientist?

JOSEPH RUSSO
Bristol, R.I., April 20, 2012

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The best biology teachers make evolution (the foundation of biology) a major part of every biology lesson. One reason this is important is evolution by natural selection is the most interesting fact of science. Teach evolution and students learn how to love science. Throw out evolution (which is what Christians want) and students learn how to hate science. They hate it because they think it's boring. They think science is boring because their biology teacher is incompetent and should be fired. Most American biology teachers don't properly teach biology. They teach evolution for only a small part of the year, or they dumb down or throw out evolution to avoid harassment from Christian thugs, or they are not qualified to teach biology, or they illegally teach magical creationism. Every American student has the right to receive an excellent education. That's why bad teachers need to be thrown out the window.

The best biology teachers are knowledgeable about evolution and they teach it every day. And when a Christian parent or Christian student complains about her teaching the foundation of biology in her biology classroom, she tells the Christian tard to fuck off.