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To: Liberal Classic

I guess there's no accounting for taste.


1,048 posted on 09/26/2006 2:19:40 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Quix
I guess there's no accounting for taste.

Hooray!

Maybe, just maybe, you'll see where I'm going with this.

Lots of people have pet theories or peeves or unorthodox beliefs about one thing or another. I have an uncle who sees trilaterals and build-a-burgers everywhere. It takes all kinds.

Anyway, it sounds like to me that you're in agreement that the Apollo missions were not frauds and that we put men on the moon and brought them back safely to earth. However, there exists a whole cottage industry catering to those people who want to read about the fraud that was the Apollo missions. They have their conventions and periodicals and books and "researchers" and their "scientific documented evidence" and so forth.

I believe they have every right to their believes, to publish their ideas, sell video tapes, and so on. However, I don't want their ideas taught in science class.

Why? Because they're wrong? No. The simple underlying idea to my conservatism with regards to science class is this: There aren't enough hours in the day. Students spend precious few hours getting math and science training as it is. There is simply not enough time to address every minority viewpoint and controversial idea in science. If we tried to teach that, students wouldn't learn anything at all!

The reason I voted 'no' on the poll is because students need to be taught the currently prevailing scientific theories. Students are not in science class to "debate" science any more than students are in math class to debate math. They are there to learn the material. Their job is to learn the material, and be able to answer questions based on it.

I have no problem with students debating creationism and intelligent design in forensics club, writing papers on it in English class, discussing creation in Bible club, etc, etc. However, I strongly believe that science class is for science, and we're doing students a dis-service by teaching anything else.

1,057 posted on 09/26/2006 2:37:29 PM PDT by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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