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To: Inappropriate Laughter; BrandtMichaels

What case in point?

Creation isn’t taught in public schools, only evolution is and it has not been the salvation of science education as the evos like to make it out to be.

Perhaps you could explain why the more evolution is pushed in schools, the more our country’s standing in the world in relation to science is tanking.


166 posted on 06/10/2009 3:53:26 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

“Creation isn’t taught in public schools, only evolution is and it has not been the salvation of science education as the evos like to make it out to be.”

—The “salvation of science education”? I’ve never heard that claim, and don’t even know what it means.

“Perhaps you could explain why the more evolution is pushed in schools, the more our country’s standing in the world in relation to science is tanking.”

—Actually, evolution is taught less in America than in most other countries (except perhaps some of the Muslim nations).
And, if anything, the teaching of evolution has decreased.
Schools - and especially text book publishers - HATE controversy. For textbook publishers, controversy is a sure way to lose sales. That’s why so many textbooks look so similar - if you’re like everyone else, than it’s unlikely to create controversy: don’t change, and don’t say anything new. “Textbook example” has even become an expression to mean “carbon copied” and “common”. Because of this fear of controversy, many textbooks are afraid to touch upon evolution - or do so tentatively and put the subject towards the back of the book. And many schools are afraid to touch the issue as well. In most other countries these problems don’t exist.


167 posted on 06/10/2009 4:14:14 PM PDT by goodusername
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