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To: Oztrich Boy

“It is because the US is the only one where it is PC to pretend that “creation-delugism” has any connexion to reality.”

It’s actually the other way around. The other countries teach SCIENCE not propaganda - EVOLUTION. The other countries teach SCIENCE and let the chips fall where they may. Science in the U.S. is ONLY evolution driven - it defies logic and there is NO evidence to support it. So we suck in Science.

The OTHER countries that beat the pants off the U.S. in SCIENCE and MATH. They don’t dwell on Darwin or shove “new math” at kids.


49 posted on 11/06/2009 6:35:29 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

“It’s actually the other way around. The other countries teach SCIENCE not propaganda - EVOLUTION. The other countries teach SCIENCE and let the chips fall where they may. Science in the U.S. is ONLY evolution driven - it defies logic and there is NO evidence to support it. So we suck in Science.”

—Science education in the US is hardly “evolution driven” - it’s barely mentioned. Evolution and Darwin weren’t mentioned when I was in high school, and I even took biology as an elective. Others I’ve spoken to had similar experiences. I only learned about them by reading books in my own time and later taking university courses.
I don’t know about Singapore, but people I’ve spoken to from other nations on the list that are whipping the US (Japan, Korea, Scandinavian nations, etc) were taught quite a bit about evolution and Darwinism.

I do agree with some of what you’re saying though. Science education in the US is too much about regurgitating facts and data instead of teaching actual science. I think the US should copy what the countries ahead of us are doing - and if they are teaching more straight science, than that’s what we should do. But apparently teaching the straight science and letting the chips fall where they may almost always results in the students being Darwinists. Did you notice that Darwinism is vastly more popular in the countries ahead of us?


58 posted on 11/07/2009 8:59:33 AM PST by goodusername
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