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1/4/2010 4:18:54 PM Posted: 8 months ago Most people here seem to be against the mention of Intelligent Design in schools.
So, when a student asks where life firsts originiated, what should be the proper response? My junior high textbook just listed theories as to how life developed: Intelligent design Reaction from outer space Chemical reaction I forget... Listing theories seems to be the most rational choice. When Charles Dickens uses run-on sentences, it's considered style. When I use run-on sentences, it's considered bad grammar. |
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1/4/2010 4:23:53 PM Posted: 8 months ago Abiogenesis - most widely accepted field of study of how life came to be, with evidence to back up most claims and theories found within.
Intelligent design - not a theory, because it has no evidence, and is based in scripture and myth. Want to be fair? Sure, mention the theories - but ID isn't a theory, so it won't be popping up. |
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1/4/2010 4:31:24 PM Posted: 8 months ago Right.
And you know, school doesn't have to have every answer to every question. At a certain point, it's okay to say 'we just don't friggin' know.' That's the explanation for how the universe was created (pre-Big Bang.) Christians seem to think that they're right by default because for some things they have the only response, but we all know that being the first to answer doesn't make it right. |
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1/4/2010 4:38:54 PM Posted: 8 months ago Have a research assignment. Tell them that would be a good topic for it. Teaching students that if they ask questions of teachers in complex matters the answers shall be certainly attained directly thereby is a terrible idea, it makes them intellectually dependent.
Heartless bastard : At 8/18/2010 8:36:53 PM, mattrodstrom wrote: : : At 8/18/2010 8:30:23 PM, Ragnar_Rahl wrote: : :ripping the bearman to shreds : : not like dead though??? right? |
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1/4/2010 4:41:44 PM Posted: 8 months ago Ragnar, why say, "I don't know..." when you can say, "Well, here are the most popular explanations that people have come up with..."?
Otherwise, we'd teach students nothing about why we yawn, rather than three plausible explanations. When Charles Dickens uses run-on sentences, it's considered style. When I use run-on sentences, it's considered bad grammar. |
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1/4/2010 4:43:19 PM Posted: 8 months ago The solution to this problem is quite simple. The abolition of government schools.
"We have done this because we love liberty and hate authority." – Voltairine de Cleyre "I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly." -Voltairine de Cleyre |
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1/4/2010 5:34:31 PM Posted: 8 months ago At 1/4/2010 4:43:19 PM, Reasoning wrote: Then what do the private schools say? When Charles Dickens uses run-on sentences, it's considered style. When I use run-on sentences, it's considered bad grammar. |
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1/4/2010 5:38:27 PM Posted: 8 months ago At 1/4/2010 5:34:31 PM, mongeese wrote:At 1/4/2010 4:43:19 PM, Reasoning wrote: Whatever the heck they want. "We have done this because we love liberty and hate authority." – Voltairine de Cleyre "I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly." -Voltairine de Cleyre |
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1/4/2010 5:41:19 PM Posted: 8 months ago At 1/4/2010 5:38:27 PM, Reasoning wrote: Doesn't answer the question. |
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1/4/2010 5:44:27 PM Posted: 8 months ago At 1/4/2010 5:41:19 PM, Nags wrote:At 1/4/2010 5:38:27 PM, Reasoning wrote: I don't think Reasoning actually understands how real life works. |
