[js1138]

Is it a place where we sit the children down and tell them all together what the real world is really like, and if they do not tow the line they fail?

And the alternative is what? Good grades for effort? Self-esteem based education? Should we teach them that the flat earth theory is equally valid? Which of the following subjects do you have trouble with?

• The age of the earth
• Natural selection
• Common descent

What do you think should be taught and why?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Nobody has a firm grip on any of the above. It just ain't that simple. Teachers and scientists need to admit when they are offering conjecture as opposed to fact. Dogmatic evolutionists have a real problem with that. Theories about how the world operates (and why) are not subjects for inculcation and parroting. Neither is real science.

The Theory of Evolution is a champion of science on the cheap because it can be moulded to fit the evidence. Anyone can explain the universe apart from the intervention of an intelligence higher than that of man. Big deal!

"Natural Selection" is a reasonable explanation for the types and varieties of species available for observation in the present day. But it is only one of many possibilities and by no means the only contender as far as reason is concerned.

"Common Descent" is a reasonable assumption that, since the same building blocks are found in the bioshpere, they are all derived from a common, simpler life source. Talk about a leap of faith! Of course they are derived from a common source: God. The Creator of all things seen and unseen. The history of how and when the variety of life forms came about is a matter of FAITH for everyone living today. It is not available for "scientific" testing.

The "age of the earth"? What would satisfy your musings? Do you want an answer give-or-take-a-few-billion-years or down-to-the-nanosecond? Let me know when you figure out what "time" is.