- “Why not let people choose what they want their children to learn?” Wellman said.There is a huge flaw in this line of thinking – primarily because the fact that parents can be mistaken or biased isn’t taken into consideration.”This is concerning. I’m all for teaching evolution. But the concept put forth here that scientists, or anyone for that matter, takes precedence over parents for what a child is taught and exposed to is appalling. Do you actually believe that “experts” in their fields are not biased? That they have a greater love and concern for the individual child than that child’s parents? This is an “ivory tower” belief.
- Your comment is awaiting moderation.“But the concept put forth here that scientists, or anyone for that matter, takes precedence over parents for what a child is taught and exposed to is appalling.”How is letting scientists and science teachers make decisions about science curriculums appalling? And since when did parents (especially parents who deny basic scientific facts) become qualified to say anything about science curriculums?The experts are biased? You want to throw out the experts because they accept reality?
- Religion has been a problem for many many years in the classroom. Instead of sound science the 3% atheist population has infiltrated the PUBLIC classroom (not their own private schools) with 100% religious conjecture that all things were created without design and without a creator. This nonsensical, unscientific, debunked philosophy has cause more problem and chaos in the schools and in the world than any other and the public needs to be EDUCATED on the reality of the RELIGION being taught and the VAST evidence that supports what has ALWAYS been taught in the past in this nation.
- Your comment is awaiting moderation.“100% religious conjecture that all things were created without design and without a creator”Your ridiculous idea that basic facts of science supported by more than 150 years of scientific discoveries is “religious conjecture” is why we let scientists (instead of science deniers) make decisions about science curriculums.Evolution has been accepted by biologists as fact for more than a century. Today thanks to countless thousands of powerful evidences from DNA sequencing and other branches of science, evolution has become the strongest fact of science.Another thing about evolution is it’s interesting. Don’t teach evolution and students learn how to hate science because they think it’s boring. Teach evolution and students learn how to love science.Your magical creator fantasy does not belong in the 21st century. But you go ahead and believe your nonsense, nobody cares. Just have the decency to not infect America’s students with your disease.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
