Teaching of Evolution (your thoughts?)

Do you agree evolution should be taught?

yes	67.3%	[ 1018 ]
no	13.2%	[ 199 ]
I'm not sure.. but I want gold :3	19.5%	[ 295 ]
Total Votes:			[ 1512 ]

[King_Atlantis]

science can be observed and recreated in a lab.

science evolution can not be, i agree totally that it shouldnt.

[King_Atlantis]

VoijaRisa

[Lei. Xin. Feng]

Of course they should teach Evolution. It's proven fact, unlike Creationism.
The only thing that religion can argue with science on is the Big Bang Theory.
Beyond that, no. Religion and actual fact should be kept separate.

As an astronomer, I can tell you that trying to argue against the big bang is astoundingly stupid.

lets see...big bang...every thing came from nothing very quikly from one point and is spreading out and getting worse...lets see, what does that prove wink

[Kal Eldritch]

[Lei. Xin. Feng]

wolfgirl_moon

VoijaRisa

As an astronomer, I can tell you that trying to argue against the big bang is astoundingly stupid.

Yea. What this guy said. Arguing against the Big Bang is like arguing that the sky isn't blue. (shut up color blind ppl)

Yes, it is. I'm not trying to argue against the Big Bang, so stop pointing that out to me. stare

And if the schools were required to teach Creationism and all that lovely stuff, and if people thought we came from Adam and Eve... then that'd make us all related to each other. Eck.

Here's a thought. The bible acknowledges that there were more humans than A and E in the beginning.

Genisis 1:26-27

26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genisis 2:7

7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genisis 2:21-22

21And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

After the seventh day, after he had already made man out of his own image, he made Adam and Eve to tend to the garden of Eden. Who's to say they weren't getting busy?

[cRzY cHiNeSe GrL]

there is lots of evidence that evolution did take place.,....cant argue about an apeman...

[Kal Eldritch]

King_Atlantis

science can be observed and recreated in a lab.

science evolution can not be, i agree totally that it shouldnt.

Yes it can. Evolution describes the genetic drift towards certain genes in a species in generations as the ones with the "desireable" genes reproduce. As humans, we can apply selective pressure to a species, forcing a certain gene trait to be expressed more than another. You can prove that by studying the DNA of the parent and the offspring. Voila. You can test evo. in the lab.

[ManateeMan]

Danzig 101

Maybe thats why they have catholic schools and public schools

You mean Christian Schools, as the Catholic Denomination actually accepts evolution.

Quote:

Catholic schools teach evolution, not theistic evolution, as part of their science curriculum. They teach the fact of evolution and the theory of its mechanisms. This is the same evolution curriculum that secular schools teach. Bishop DiLorenzo of Richmond, chair of the Committee on Science and Human Values in a December 2004 letter sent to all U.S. bishops: "...Catholic schools should continue teaching evolution as a scientific theory backed by convincing evidence.

[Merriex]

They taught it to me way back when. xd

[N3bu]

King_Atlantis

VoijaRisa

[Lei. Xin. Feng]

Of course they should teach Evolution. It's proven fact, unlike Creationism.
The only thing that religion can argue with science on is the Big Bang Theory.
Beyond that, no. Religion and actual fact should be kept separate.

As an astronomer, I can tell you that trying to argue against the big bang is astoundingly stupid.

lets see...big bang...every thing came from nothing very quikly from one point and is spreading out and getting worse...lets see, what does that prove wink

Misconceptions about the big bang. its not just simply everything coming from nothing. To say that would be silly because it doesn't make sence in modern science.

Evidence supports that at some point the universe existed in a small point before expanding into what we know today in the event known as the big bang. Observed expansion from the Hubble Telescope supports this theory.
However little if not nothing supports the theory that an intelligent creator existed and created beyond speculation that everything is "complicated".

[Oblivious Sage]

King_Atlantis

VoijaRisa

[Lei. Xin. Feng]

Of course they should teach Evolution. It's proven fact, unlike Creationism.
The only thing that religion can argue with science on is the Big Bang Theory.
Beyond that, no. Religion and actual fact should be kept separate.

As an astronomer, I can tell you that trying to argue against the big bang is astoundingly stupid.

lets see...big bang...every thing came from nothing very quikly from one point and is spreading out and getting worse...lets see, what does that prove wink

You reject the Big Bang? What's your alternate explanation for Hubble's Law and CMBR then? No really, I'm sure it's better than anything a generation of astrophysicists can come up with.

[LtEarthworm]

tylara67

King_Atlantis

VoijaRisa

[Lei. Xin. Feng]

Of course they should teach Evolution. It's proven fact, unlike Creationism.
The only thing that religion can argue with science on is the Big Bang Theory.
Beyond that, no. Religion and actual fact should be kept separate.

As an astronomer, I can tell you that trying to argue against the big bang is astoundingly stupid.

lets see...big bang...every thing came from nothing very quikly from one point and is spreading out and getting worse...lets see, what does that prove wink

You reject the Big Bang? What's your alternate explanation for Hubble's Law and CMBR then? No really, I'm sure it's better than anything a generation of astrophysicists can come up with.

Intelligent expanding?
As for the CMBR maybe it's the friction between galaxies and the ether razz

[Resid3nt]

King_Atlantis

VoijaRisa

[Lei. Xin. Feng]

Of course they should teach Evolution. It's proven fact, unlike Creationism.
The only thing that religion can argue with science on is the Big Bang Theory.
Beyond that, no. Religion and actual fact should be kept separate.

As an astronomer, I can tell you that trying to argue against the big bang is astoundingly stupid.

lets see...big bang...every thing came from nothing very quikly from one point and is spreading out and getting worse...lets see, what does that prove wink

It proves you are a ******** ignorant, that's for sure.

[Shokushu]

King_Atlantis

science can be observed and recreated in a lab.

science evolution can not be, i agree totally that it shouldnt.

Actually they do do evolution experiments that they do repeat in labs.

The organisms aren't repeatedly growing extra arms or anything but under the same selective pressures with a large enough population the same mutation can occur most of the time.

King_Atlantis

VoijaRisa

[Lei. Xin. Feng]

Of course they should teach Evolution. It's proven fact, unlike Creationism.
The only thing that religion can argue with science on is the Big Bang Theory.
Beyond that, no. Religion and actual fact should be kept separate.

As an astronomer, I can tell you that trying to argue against the big bang is astoundingly stupid.

lets see...big bang...every thing came from nothing very quikly from one point and is spreading out and getting worse...lets see, what does that prove wink

What do you mean by that?

And it wasn't necessarily a single point either- if the universe is infinite now it would have been infinite then.
Everything within observable space would have been a single point but what reason is there to think that it all ends just past the point that we can't see anything anymore?

[patton1992]

All i have to say is seperation of church and state.

[Shokushu]

patton1992

All i have to say is seperation of church and state.

If that's all we had to say people wouldn't be constantly trying to get around it.

[VoijaRisa]

faolan

... But apparently it was removed from the curriculum in Kansas in 1999...

It was immediately reinstated at the next school board election. In 2005 they again tried to temper it with some form of creationism, but that was again overturned early this year.