Oh, but that’s just teaching them the “truth” instead of brainwashing them, dontcha know?
I mean, really, if you want them to accomplish nothing more in life than being a burger flipper at McD’s, then teach them creation instead of evolution.
Some people feel obligated to make sure our kids learn what they think the kids should instead of what the parents want.
If there's something that's way overrated, it's the teaching of science. If you're going to be a biologist, what you believe about the creation of life might matter.
Teaching the scientific method as a way to problem solve would be helpful to people in careers where they find themselves with problems to solve or new things to learn often. Not so much for learning the results of experiments that don't have a lot of bearing on your job. Is it really important to a welder to know how the kinetics of the reaction that occurs when they cut steel with an oxy/acetylene torch? How important to your average person is it to know quantum mechanics?
I have a degree in chemistry.
You're not just stupid, you're willfully stupid.
Your statement is unworthy. I know many people with doctorates in the sciences (like me) who do not believe in evolutionary theory. In fact, some of the more brilliant people I know are creationists.
Unlike public school texts, most Christian biology texts not only teach the creationist side of the argument, but also touch strongly on evolution, because the writers are aware the children will be attacked from every direction once they go on. My students are thoughtful and investigative in these matters. They are certainly not burger flippers.
In fact, I have several doing their doctorates now at Ivy League and equivalent universities.
“I mean, really, if you want them to accomplish nothing more in life than being a burger flipper at McD’s, then teach them creation instead of evolution.”
The most productive, successful people that I know, all of whom have net worths of 7 figures and at least one of whom has a net worth of 9 figures (a graduate of MIT) are all Christians who would scoff at the idea that man came from a single cell organism through random acts of chance - not just because of their faith - but because of the sheer mathematical impossibility.
I know dozens of home schooled kids, including my third daughter, and none of them are flipping burgers. In fact, my daughter who was home schooled in her elementary years breezed through her public high school as the valedictorian.
Evolution as an explanation for the origin of human life is a joke and anyone who believes it probably believes in man made global warming. It’s a religion - not science.