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Originally Posted by Lurker
If you're saying that evolution shouldn't be taught in the classroom then really what you are saying is that no science should be taught because all science taught in the classroom is presented in the same way. In my experience no science teacher has ever told me that anything they have taught is absolute fact; all science is always a theory.
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I didn't say evolution should not be taught in the classroom..
I said that the Darwinian theory of Evolution, (ie, the process of natural selection, that the origin of all things is a result of this process) should not be taught as an absolute fact, when it is no fact at all, but rather a great great theory which I also accept, but not as an absolute fact, because I could never ACTUALLY know about evolution the way I can know about other principles of science which I can observe and experience directly. I can put light through a prism and KNOW for a FACT that in white light is all the colors of the rainbow, but how could I ever know that I evolved from sulfur bacteria at the bottom of the ocean 3.5 billion years ago?
Good science asks questions, and the way evolution is presented today in biology books DOES not encourage questioning..
today science folks get as defensive about evolution as religious folks get about the Bible, it is fucking ridiculous..