Schools are putting out myriads of kids who can’t read and write as it is.
Not teaching them something that is covered in a few days of one year of high school biology is not *ignorance*.
There’s plenty more science that can fill in that gap that they NEED to know.
Focusing that time on the actual use and application of the scientific method would be a good start.
Right now, the ToE is being used primarily as an indoctrination tool for the secular humanist ideology.
Where are the demands from the evos that science not be abused and misused to promote political agendas or religious ideologies?
I thought so.
Until then, it would be best dropped from the curriculum and would absolutely not hurt any student’s academic career, since it’s not likely that the ToE is being taught correctly to begin with considering the number of misconceptions about it on both sides for all the decades that it has had a monopoly in the public education system.
This country did just fine for centuries in the area of scientific and technological development while creation was taught in schools and evolution not. There has been no detectable improvement in the education levels of the public schools with the introduction of evolution and the elimination of creation. On the contrary, the quality of education has continued to decline steadily.
The two other options, private school and homeschool, do better academically and often, because of the religious nature of the education, teach BOTH creation and evolution and those students consistently score better than their public school counterparts.
There is no evidence whatsoever, that teaching creation, or not teaching evolution will lead to ignorance. Evos simply have NO support for that tired old canard that they trot out every time the subject comes up.
Foregoing a year of biology produces ignorance of biology.
Focusing that time on the actual use and application of the scientific method would be a good start.
May I recommend that you take your own advice and apply it to creationism?
Where are the demands from the evos that science not be abused and misused to promote political agendas or religious ideologies?
All over the place. Check out Climate Audit or WUWT for two obvious examples.
The two other options, private school and homeschool, do better academically and often, because of the religious nature of the education, teach BOTH creation and evolution and those students consistently score better than their public school counterparts.
Like I said before, you need to refresh yourself on the scientific method. Cherry picking data is dishonest at best. Also teaching 'both' is not equivalent to teaching neither.
There is no evidence whatsoever, that teaching creation, or not teaching evolution will lead to ignorance. Evos simply have NO support for that tired old canard that they trot out every time the subject comes up.
If someone hasn't been exposed to or taught something, they are by definition ignorant.