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Originally posted by honeychile
FWIW, here's how I see it: I have no problem at all with any and all theories of how we came to be being taught. In fact, I would want ALL theories discussed as that, theories - Big Bang, Evolution, Creationism, Toaster Worship, whatever. I think it's rather limiting to a child to not teach ALL the options.
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I understand what you are saying Honeychile, however, how do you teach a basic bonehead biology 101 to a group of young people without those stauch Christian religious conservatives entering the room telling you that: 1) Gene mutations are a manifestion of God's Intelligent Design for make better humans; 2) but meanwhile, you have a loved one dying of cancer due to massive mutations in their metastatic tumor cells...
Evolution as a theory is not what is at stake here. It is the introduction of a religion in a science class that is the problem...
How do we researchers begin to discuss basic chemistry that can be easily tested by various machines with predictability and repetition and then introduce a God that ordained that process to occur and why should we change it???
Same goes for physics and astronomy... It is NOT because we scientists added our own perception of what we imagine what happened, because if you are a "real scientist" there would be no shame to your game... It is because we have tested and re-tested it and this is what the results are and other folks have repeated the same tests and get the same results...
I mean, dayum, protons, electrons and neutrons are in atoms... These things can be measured and are readily...
Can God be measured by human hands?
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