Public School, Religion, Science

[Gaidin]

Mods said feel free to open another topic. So voila.

Original Post:

Does anyone else feel that instead of public schools teaching any sort of origin of life belief (Creation or Evolution), they should just leave that topic for the student's religion, or lack thereof (In this case, it would be other books or the internet), to explain how life came to be?

This would make public schools completely neutral on the matter. By them not teaching the origin of life, I'm also talking about science classes. If this were to happen, private schools should of course be able to teach whatever theory they want on the origin of life.

Just my two cents...seeing as there is a heavy debate on whether to allow both of these beliefs being taught, why not none, and let the student learn this from their religion's perspective, or by other means, such as free reading, or browsing the internet at home?

1 - I really don't think it's the prerogative of the discussion starter in any ethical forum discussion to just shut it down when it's not going his way.

2 - I want to see his response to things said here.

2a - He probably won't reply, but I'm bored enough to see if he will.

3 - He replied to the rapture thread so someone else can revive that if they want.

4 - To continue the thread:

I wonder how far back we would need to go to completely erase all scientific knowledge that concerns or directly leads to evolution.

Evolutionary ideas have existed since the 6th century BC(Anaximander). He was mainly interested in common descent and transmutation of species. They didn't have the rigor of the modern scientific method back then, so Darwin is the first to be credited with the presentation of rigorous observational evidence. However, we would have to go pretty far back indeed. Check it out.

[chriscase]

Evolutionary ideas have existed since the 6th century BC(Anaximander). He was mainly interested in common descent and transmutation of species. They didn't have the rigor of the modern scientific method back then, so Darwin is the first to be credited with the presentation of rigorous observational evidence. However, we would have to go pretty far back indeed. Check it out.

I have a feeling high school science curricula might already be a bit light on Anaximander, but I think it's worth considering how much surgery would be required to completely wipe out anything related to evolution from a science education. It's hard for me to see what you would have left, but it would probably be pretty ugly.