You are exactly right.
On the other hand, the Public Schools, Courts, politicians, and Darwin apologists are not exactly what I would consider to be open minded about rational criticisms either.
I've read about Darwin. He was compelled to publish because others were coming to similar conclusions. He needed to be the first one to undermine traditional teachings. Perfectly understandable if you have an ego the size of infinity.
Actually, he may have been a good guy, but others in his wake, are guilty of an educational tsunami, and are clearly unrepentant. Of course the real egotists were persons such as Pasteur, who by the way actually did something with his intellect.
But what now? Debate gets thrown over to Huitzilopochtl or other blood thirsty icons? Where is the sense in that?
They curtail freedom of speech or a denial of rational debate at the point of a gun with even the most logically evasive politically appointed jurist even so much as nuances a disapproval.
It is unAmerican, and it is plain and simply willful ignorance. Ignorance which the public education frauds are determined to impose on posterity, by hook or crook.
The draft dodging tenured professors at our nations universities are even more despicable with their tactics.
But as I recently posted elsewhere...I'm just some guy.
Much more open minded than YEC fanatics.
I've read about Darwin. He was compelled to publish because others were coming to similar conclusions. He needed to be the first one to undermine traditional teachings. Perfectly understandable if you have an ego the size of infinity.
Which creationist website did you read about Darwin on?
That cry is heard over and over. This is not "freedom of speech" issue. Creationism (and its retarded cousin, ID) and all other mythology can be discussed in the proper forum. It should no more be discussed in a science class than astrology in an astronomy class or alchemy in a physics class.
It is unAmerican, and it is plain and simply willful ignorance. Ignorance which the public education frauds are determined to impose on posterity, by hook or crook.
It is science. Willful Ignorance is the refusal to look at scientific evidence because it appears to violate a religious concept.