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To: MHalblaub

you mistake my objection.

the majority of high school students are incapable of summing a series of whole numbers or composing a compound sentence in English. They are thus incapable of understanding the distinction between faith and science, supposition vs. hypothesis vs. theory, fact and record/observation, etc...

the majority of teachers in the public education system are not competent to reliably teach a child how to tie his shoes. They are thus GROSSLY incapable of teaching so complex a discipline as evolutionary theory, let alone contrasting the science of evolutionary theory against the fraud that is ID.

fix the schools.
return Elementary school to its ordained purpose: firmly educating the young in the elemental skills of linguistics, logic, basic mathmatics, and the fundamentals of empiricism.
return High School to what it used to be: HIGH School - a place wherein properly prepared students can be led by competent teachers in exploration of much more complicated fields of study.

unless and until this is acheived, attempting to teach evolution in the public schools is at best pointless, and at worst highly counterproductive.


1,884 posted on 02/11/2005 11:47:02 AM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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To: King Prout
unless and until this is acheived, attempting to teach evolution in the public schools is at best pointless, and at worst highly counterproductive.

A very good point.

1,910 posted on 02/11/2005 12:48:04 PM PST by Tribune7
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