http://ford-prefect42.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ford-prefect42.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] liveonearth 2011-06-22 07:26 pm (UTC)

At this point... I think that they ought to stop teaching either. It's a piece of teaching that isn't really *needed* by anyone for any purpose, and is a divisive issue to no actual purpose. Perhaps offer evolutionary biology as an elective. We've got enough major problems that getting distracted by minutia is unhelpful.

For the record, when there's a discrepancy in the "theories" between demonstrable science and religion, it isn't a tough call. I don't "believe" in evolution, I *know* that it takes place.

My big problem is that it is not the role of schools to teach values, to contradict or undermine parents, or to do anything other than to impart knowledge. Part of the problem with our country is that, for too long, the school systems have been corrupted into being indoctrination centers. They should be returned to teaching the "three Rs".

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