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To: highball
The weaknesses are discussed in science classes.

Perhaps things have changed since I was in school. Please tell me where the theory of evolution is vigorously questioned and where teachers are urged to offer their students sound reasons for why the theory of evolution may in fact not be true, and why.

When I was in school I recall absolutely no questioning of evolution in any textbook I ever read. I recall one teacher, obviously a Christian, stating that she did not agree with it but relating that she had no choice but to teach it. I was absolutely shocked to discover, years later, that anyone ever questioned the origins of man as anything other than time plus chance.

382 posted on 01/04/2006 7:00:06 AM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen
Please tell me where the theory of evolution is vigorously questioned and where teachers are urged to offer their students sound reasons for why the theory of evolution may in fact not be true, and why.

Why should teachers be urged to offer reasons that the theory may not be true when such reasons don't exist?

385 posted on 01/04/2006 7:11:33 AM PST by Quark2005 (Divination is NOT science.)
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To: Zack Nguyen

"Please tell me where the theory of evolution is vigorously questioned and where teachers are urged to offer their students sound reasons for why the theory of evolution may in fact not be true, and why."

What sound reasons? And when do teachers ever discuss any problems with the current theory of gravity? Or Newton's theory?

"I was absolutely shocked to discover, years later, that anyone ever questioned the origins of man as anything other than time plus chance."

Natural selection is not a random process.


387 posted on 01/04/2006 7:12:57 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: Zack Nguyen
"Perhaps things have changed since I was in school. Please tell me where the theory of evolution is vigorously questioned and where teachers are urged to offer their students sound reasons for why the theory of evolution may in fact not be true, and why."

Well, you're the one who originally made the silly assertion that "questions will not be allowed in the public school classroom." I suggest that you support that statement if you can.

I don't know when you were in school, but in the 1980s, my biology teacher explained how evolution could possibly be falsified. He explained the gaps in the fossil record, what we expect to find in the future, and what it would mean for the ToE if something else was found.

The problem with your position is that there aren't "sound reasons for why the theory of evolution may in fact not be true". Not scientific ones, anyway.

The ToE has been thoroughly and vigorously tested for centuries, and been supported in every single instance. There is at least as much evidence supporting it as supports the Germ Theory of Disease - do you have a personal objection to that one as well?

392 posted on 01/04/2006 7:32:51 AM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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