Many Texas Schools Teach Creationism

[distraff]

According to the Reading and Writing and Religion II a report by the Texas Freedom Network, many Texas children are being taught creationism including the myth that the earth is only 6,000 years old. So what do you think of this development? What should we do about it? Should creationism be taught in schools?

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marb...ch-creationism

[jillian]

and we wonder we're like number 25 internationally in the sciences....

[Matty]

and we wonder we're like number 25 internationally in the sciences....

Are you sitting here telling us you don't believe in God Jillian? Really?

[jillian]

Are you sitting here telling us you don't believe in God Jillian? Really?

i do.

but the earth isn't 6,000 years old and creationism isn't science.

i don't confuse religion with science. it's a bad idea.

[Adelaide]

Creationism should be explained in history class or world religion class.

[Chris]

It's not exactly a new development. :-)

While creationism shouldn't be taught as science, I'm OK, if the community desires it, with it being taught.

Science needs to be taught as science, modern science, not medieval authoritarian inductive science, but science as falsification, as tentative, incomplete, probabilistic.

[GrassrootsConservative]

and we wonder we're like number 25 internationally in the sciences....

Gotta get big government Liberal loons out of the school systems if we want to fix that.

Can't have our children being taught that gays and pedophiles have mental disorders and didn't choose to be the way that they are.

When I was in school I was taught to build a rocket. None of that anymore. Wonder why?

Christianity has always been part of the school systems. Kids are just now starting to fail.

Tell me what part of your brain thinks that Christianity is the problem? America used to have scientifically brilliant children.

Extra credit if you can right yourself now and tell me what the real problem is and give me a quick brainstormed idea of how we can fix it.

[distraff]

It's not exactly a new development. :-)

While creationism shouldn't be taught as science, I'm OK, if the community desires it, with it being taught.

Science needs to be taught as science, modern science, not medieval authoritarian inductive science, but science as falsification, as tentative, incomplete, probabilistic.

I don't think that creationism should be taught as fact, but as an idea that has been falsified. People in general are not very informed so they should not be determining what gets taught as fact. The vast majority of the scientific community supports evolution so it is evolution that should be taught as fact not creationism.

[countryboy]

I don't think that creationism should be taught as fact, but as an idea that has been falsified. People in general are not very informed so they should not be determining what gets taught as fact. The vast majority of the scientific community supports evolution so it is evolution that should be taught as fact not creationism.

Careful, your bias is showing.

[distraff]

Gotta get big government Liberal loons out of the school systems if we want to fix that.

Can't have our children being taught that gays and pedophiles have mental disorders and didn't choose to be the way that they are.

A mental disorder implies that their judgment is somehow impaired and that their functioning in normal society has been reduced. In fact I know several gay people and they do just fine in society.

When I was in school I was taught to build a rocket. None of that anymore. Wonder why?

Christianity has always been part of the school systems. Kids are just now starting to fail.

Tell me what part of your brain thinks that Christianity is the problem? America used to have scientifically brilliant children.

Extra credit if you can right yourself now and tell me what the real problem is and give me a quick brainstormed idea of how we can fix it.

How do you know that teaching kids about Christianity in public schools helps them be smart, or that not teaching them Christianity makes them dumber? I just don't see the connection here.