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1/26/2013 12:41:23 AM
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No, Missouri, intelligent design doesn't belong in schools.
[quote]Legislation proposed in the Missouri House of Representatives on Wednesday would require schools to treat the theory of evolution and intelligent design equally.
The Missouri Standard Science Act states the theory of evolution must be taught side-by-side with intelligent design in public elementary and secondary schools. The bill also requires any textbook that discusses evolution to "give equal treatment to biological evolution and biological intelligent design."[/quote]
Please...just stop...
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Or, you could place it in History class, seeing as religion played a massively large part in shaping history.
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28 отв.So your saying that they should only teach 1 popular theory to students, and not the other popular one? Sounds like bias. If your going to teach something, you need to teach both sides of it.
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13 отв.What's the problem? Show kids both and they can decide which to believe.
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18 отв.Why is this a problem? Why cant evolution and intelligent design both be taught? Seems only fair to me...
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Teaching creationism in public school is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v._Aguillard]Supreme Court Case[/url]. Teaching creationism is unconstitutional because it attempts to advance a particular religion, and that violates the establishment clause of the first amendment. Checkmate, assholes.
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Yeah, this seems pretty ridiculous to me. I doubt this would ever pass though. At least, I hope not...
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1 ответReligion has no place in schools.
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ITT: People who do not understand what a scientific theory is.
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nuke the bible belt pls
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2 отв.Why not teach Young-Earth Creationism too while you're at it!
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[I]Requiring[/I] students to learn about religion is just stupid. Having an optional course dedicated to religions is fine.
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1 ответFlying Spaghetti Monster needs to be taught alongside Creationist bullshit too, just so that the kids can see that it's bullshit by them a good comparison. Immortal guy that made the universe in 7 days and planted dinosaur bones in the ground to sow doubt among the non-believers seems just as likely as a Flying Spaghetti Monster in space.
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9 отв.Why is everyone getting so angry about teaching both beliefs? If this is what people are acting like, just let the kids learn from their parents.
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What is there to teach? I can imagine that lesson. "blah blah blah Charles Darwin blah blah single-cell organisms blah blah primates blah blah blah divergent evolution blah blah genetic mutation.... And that's the Theory of Evolution. OH! And some people think humans were intelligently designed by some guy named God. Moving on..."
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10 отв.Whats wrong with that? Just make it it's own course or something.
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1 ответI don't know what I find more sad: That Missouri is trying to do this, or that there are replies here suggesting that Evolution and Creationsim are on the same level and- here's the best part- "the kids should decide which is best".
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I was under the impression that public schools already taught world religion. That's fine, it doesn't belong in science class.
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1 ответPeople get upset over the dumbest things. It's so pathetic.
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It takes a special kind of idiot to come up with these ideas.
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13 отв.Exactly, what's wrong with giving them BOTH sides for once? GO AHEAD MISSOURI!
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4 отв.Изменено (SonOfTheShire): 1/27/2013 11:21:38 PMDon't they have religious studies in American schools?
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OK people take it easy, you don't have to make such a big deal out of this. There can be a mention of it but schools should stick to the main topics such as math, English, and whatever science the school teaches. There should not be any classes where it can cause students to fight and argue.
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6 отв.I don't really see a problem with them teaching an equal amount looking at different views. Unless I'm misunderstanding this, they want to take an equal time teaching Creationism and an equal time teaching the Theory of Evolution. What's wrong with that? Teach both and let the students decide what to believe.
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These types of stories concern me immensely for the future of the United States. As someone who hopes to enjoy a long career as a scientist in the years to come, I do not want to live in a society that does not only recognize the validity of the scientific method, but also does not [i]respect[/i] science's great power to explain how the world works. At this legislation's core is a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is. Intelligent Design (just a euphemism for Creationism really) is, by definition, not science. In order for an idea to be considered a scientific theory, it must [i]testable[/i] and able to be rejected based on evidence. No scientific theory can be proved, but it can be disproved. The theory of evolution by natural selection satisfies both requirements, whereas ID fails both.
