Evolution’s Backers in Kansas Start Counterattack

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by KinkyVixen

I don't think I should have to sit in a science class and be taught my teachers view of the world and religion and evolution and be told that if I don't agree with him I will flunk the class. It's ok for him to have his opinion and shove it down my throat (believe it or else), but it's not ok to have my own?

Science teachers don't don't teach their opinion, they don't teach religion, either. They teach science.

[KinkyVixen]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Science teachers don't don't teach their opinion, they don't teach religion, either. They teach science.

Maybe that's how it was in your science class Bruce, but in most of mine, that wasn't the case.

[tw]

Originally Posted by KinkyVixen

Maybe that's how it was in your science class Bruce, but in most of mine, that wasn't the case.

... which means examples are required to demonstrate what is claimed.

[KinkyVixen]

Originally Posted by tw

... which means examples are required to demonstrate what is claimed.

...which means if you're gonna teach one, you should teach both. Or none at all, like I was saying.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by KinkyVixen

if you're gonna teach one, you should teach both. Or none at all, like I was saying.

I'm fine with that, as long as the evolution is taught in a science class, and the creationism/intelligent design is taught in a religion or philosophy class. One of the two is a scientific theory, the other is not.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by KinkyVixen

...which means if you're gonna teach one, you should teach both. Or none at all, like I was saying.

What do you mean "both"? If you're talking creation myths, there's at least one per culture on the planet. And they fit very nicely in a comparative religions or philosophy class.

But this isn't science:

[tw]

Ted Koppel would do this when one intentionally did not answer the question. "You did not answer the question so I am going to ask it again":

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Science teachers don't don't teach their opinion, they don't teach religion, either. They teach science.

Originally Posted by KinkyVixen

Maybe that's how it was in your science class Bruce, but in most of mine, that wasn't the case.

Originally Posted by tw

... which means examples are required to demonstrate what is claimed.

So where are your examples. Where are your examples of science teachers teaching opinions?

Show us examples of science teachers teaching opinions instead of science. This is so easy if true. So easy that I should not have to ask this again. So show us. Show us examples of science teachers teaching opinions.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by tw

... which means examples are required to demonstrate what is claimed.

You want to hear everything I was taught in science class?
I don't have the time nor I expect do you.
Besides, I can't tell you what I was taught, only what I learned.