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Posted by Jtpsops on 2/6/2013 11:41:00 AM (view original):
Posted by tecwrg on 2/6/2013 11:26:00 AM (view original):
I wouldn't want my kids being taught creationism as an alternative to evolution in school. I'd have a huge problem with that.
And this is what weakens the evolutionist position. If your system was "fact" you'd have no problem with it standing next to another theory. But you're afraid it won't hold up, so you cry "NO!"
If it was indeed fact, you could confidently sit back and watch the other theories fall apart beside it.
I'm talking about elementary school age children. They're not mentally developed enough to distinguish between the validity of competing theories.
If you "teach" a bunch of first graders that the moon is made out of cheese, many of them are going to believe it.
Is that the kind of educational system you're advocating?
Then why teach either?
Math is math. Reading, and the things that go with it, is reading.
Why teach anything if there is a competing theory?
"Math is math".
What if tomorrow, somebody "proved" that sometimes 2 + 2 does not always = 4.
Should we then stop teaching math?
Are you saying math is the same as evolution?
Are there millions of people who believe in a different system of math? Some culture that believes 2+2=22?
You seem to be arguing that math is an absolute, that other "theories" of math, if they exist or should happen to come into existance in the future, should be disregarded.
Yet evolution, which is backed by a preponderance of credible scientific evidence should be tought side by side with a highly dubitable, religious/faith based theory of creationism.
That's interesting. You don't see any conflict in that?