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What's your opinion about teaching the theory of evolution in public schools? (Freep this poll!)
KIII-TV ^ | 07/30/11

Posted on 07/30/2011 9:55:01 PM PDT by Dominic01

What's your opinion about teaching the theory of evolution in public schools?

Thank you for participating in our poll. Here are the results so far:

Evolution should be taught in public schools. 39% Evolution should be taught along with creationism. 33% Creationism should be taught, not evolution. 24% I don't know.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: creation; evolution; god; religion
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To: Dominic01

Teaching origins in public school is a complete waste of time, and wholly unnecessary for equipping students with the facts of science they need to prepare them for college.


21 posted on 07/30/2011 10:45:48 PM PDT by pallis
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To: pallis

As I understand it, the theory of evolution doesn’t address the issue of origins.


22 posted on 07/30/2011 10:49:21 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: Kickass Conservative

It depends on who is teaching these subjects. Evolution is true in nature over time, but as you say it does not threaten creation. A week or two of discussion on the subject in this era, however, and we know what the outcome will be. Public schools use to be quite Christian and trusted, but now indoctrination is wide open and in your face. Parents are too pooped to do a damn thing about it and that silence has our candidates sounding crickets on the issue also.


23 posted on 07/30/2011 10:50:11 PM PDT by RitaOK (We hang together or will hang separately. 2012, or bust)
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To: Dominic01
As an atheist i believe the known facts about both evolution and creationism should receive equal time in school. Then the young people can make up their own minds.
24 posted on 07/30/2011 11:00:20 PM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: scripter
As I understand it, the theory of evolution doesn’t address the issue of origins.

The Toeist use to be all about claiming eons ago one single cell got all hot and bothered and reproduced itself all by itself. But since they cannot discover, replicate/reproduce this hot steaming pot of primordial sludge it 'the origin' of TOE has been quietly laid as if to rest. But any evolution show played on the tube will as if proved and evidenced by the 'facts' of a 'theory', casually note the so called origins.

TOE is a fairy tail of reproduction. (Yes, I know there are two different spellings of the word tail/tale, and I know what each one means, note for the nose picker troop)

25 posted on 07/30/2011 11:02:20 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: RitaOK
Well, Creationism and Evolution are like Apples and Oranges.
I guess the best answer is Fruit Salad.

Unfortunately, most of the idiots running our Institutions, especially Education, don't know their asses from a hole in the ground.

To them, it's just those crazy Christians who believe in a Higher Power, which is funny considering the way they look at Obama.

26 posted on 07/30/2011 11:04:35 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Would you rather live in Obamaville or Palintown?)
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To: Dominic01
Evolution? Metamorphosis
Don't think so. Somehow that theory's just not working anymore.
27 posted on 07/30/2011 11:37:28 PM PDT by marjiwoj
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To: Dominic01

Evolution is real. As an amateur paleontologist, I have seen the changes over millions of years of species of sharks, Oysters, clams, etc. The British ammonoids in their vertical shale formations are definitive proof of evolution.

However, I’m not opposed to also teaching or presenting a well-written exposition of “creationism”, in the public schools.

What people do in private schools is their business.

Fossils don’t lie. Also, archaeology (I was involved in that too) has proven a lot of biblical stories as real so if one has a truely scientific mind, they can accept both the world of biblical history and evolution as proven events without having to debate how long a “Genesis” day was.


28 posted on 07/30/2011 11:45:21 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
As an amateur paleontologist, I have seen the changes over millions of years of species of sharks, Oysters, clams, etc.

Wow, thats a long time. I don't have that kind of attention span.

29 posted on 07/31/2011 12:16:08 AM PDT by Tramonto
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To: Dominic01

Done, voted for evolution.


30 posted on 07/31/2011 12:25:26 AM PDT by blowfish
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To: Dominic01

Schools should teach evolution in history class.


31 posted on 07/31/2011 12:47:04 AM PDT by Tramonto
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To: Dominic01

Creationism or Evolution? Its a false choice. Both are hokum. Its like choosing between Barry Soetoro and Juan McCain.


32 posted on 07/31/2011 12:49:48 AM PDT by Roninf5-1
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123777413372910705.html

This fight is not about “forbidding” the teaching of evolution, but it concerns the teaching of evolution and other theories, as well as textbook content.


33 posted on 07/31/2011 1:00:05 AM PDT by matthew fuller (Forget impeachment- Extradite obama, biden, napolitano, muller, clinton and holder. Country saved!)
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To: Dominic01

Every libriary (inluding public schools and colleges) should have a copy of: “Inspiration vs Evolution” by W.B. Riley, copywrite 1923. It tells what will happen if evolution is taught as a fact. [and it has, and is happening]

The founder of Harvard (John Harvard) said: “All knowledge without Christ is vain.”

Dr. Benjamin Rush,(1715-1813) our nations first Treasurer, the youngest signer of the Constitution, wrote our first Chemistry texbook, also wrote a tract: “Why the Bible must be read and taught in our Public Schools.”

Martin Luther (1483-1546), said: “I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless we diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth.”


34 posted on 07/31/2011 1:12:17 AM PDT by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonymous)
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To: matthew fuller

So the title is misleading, no surprise.


35 posted on 07/31/2011 1:16:10 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable -- Daniel Webster)
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To: scripter

It certainly addresses the origins of man and life on this planet, though no one was there to observe the events. However you wish to bandy about the issue, the fact remains that time in public classrooms can be better spent teaching material that provides students with practical, scientific information. Freshman biology classes are filled with empty noggins that have spent countless hours listening to half-witted science teachers droll on about evolution while they know nothing about the complexities of cells, or basic chemistry, botany, zoology, ecology (apart from apocalyptic visions of rapid climate change), and we won’t mention mathematics. Taxpayers deserve better.


36 posted on 07/31/2011 1:22:09 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Dominic01

Monkey business.


37 posted on 07/31/2011 1:37:14 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution!)
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To: LetMarch

Rush certainly must have been a careful chemist to live to 98 years old given the technology of the time.


38 posted on 07/31/2011 1:38:50 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution!)
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To: naturalman1975; Dominic01

“I’ll answer it but you might not like my answer.”

Same here.

Creationism is as much a science as man-made global warming - you begin with dogma and then you only look for evidence that supports your dogma and ignore everything else.


39 posted on 07/31/2011 1:55:38 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Dominic01

Evolution mostly, with a mention about other theories, including creationism. I’ve got no problem with that.


40 posted on 07/31/2011 2:50:04 AM PDT by Paradox (Obnoxious, Bumbling, Absurd, Maladroit, Assinine)
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