Should we really be teaching Evolution in schools??

[Danbones]

say it is evolution, what's that mean?
(creationism, is somewhat the same as man made global warming ..the carbon tax, you dig?)
GOD doesn't EXIST?

ooops..while no one was looking
obama just gave 38 billion to buy weapons to a country that claims the god that doesn't exist gave them someone else's land

 

[JLM]

I fixed it for ya, cause obviously YOUR hybrid is a tad off.





A believer in whatÉ



Oh damn, look at that É Now I have to reboot my computer because JLM has already stated that when this happens É itès a computer problem, not a user error and can only be fixed by rebooting the computer.

You are crazier than a sh*t house rat, A$$hole! Show me where I said it can ONLY be fixed by rebooting the computer! Time to take your f**king pills. Maybe at your next visit to the Shrink, ask him for a prescription for some attitude pills.

I don't believe evolution should be taught in schools as fact. It should be presented as a theory only if the subject must be introduced at all.

I think it should be taught in schools as an elective subject for those who choose to take it like psychology. Most of what is taught in schools is bull sh*t any way. Math is probably one of the few "pure" subjects. Maybe geography. A lot of the rest of the sh*t is someone's translation. English is one of the most f**ked up subjects.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I suppose the whiskey has killed you ny now.

Nope, still hale and horny and enjoying 12-year old single malts.

I don't believe evolution should be taught in schools as fact. It should be presented as a theory only if the subject must be introduced at all.

But it IS a fact, it's as much a fact as gravity, and should be taught as such. It is the great unifying idea in biology, and one of the three most successful, widest ranging, and best attested scientific theories we have. (The other two are the Standard Model of quantum theory, and General Relativity.) Nothing in biology makes sense without it, and clearly you don't know what the word theory means in scientific terms. It doesn't mean an untested, unproven, guess, it means a coherent, consistent body of observations, ideas, analyses, and arguments, that serve to describe and explain some aspect of how nature behaves, and it must be empirical, testable, predictive, and in principle falsifiable, that is, it must be possible to at least imagine evidence that would prove it wrong. Evolution is all of those, and the best--indeed the only-- explanation we have for the observed complexity and diversity of life.

 

[Ludlow]

Nope, still hale and horny and enjoying 12-year old single malts.

But it IS a fact, it's as much a fact as gravity, and should be taught as such. It is the great unifying idea in biology, and one of the three most successful, widest ranging, and best attested scientific theories we have. (The other two are the Standard Model of quantum theory, and General Relativity.) Nothing in biology makes sense without it, and clearly you don't know what the word theory means in scientific terms. It doesn't mean an untested, unproven, guess, it means a coherent, consistent body of observations, ideas, analyses, and arguments, that serve to describe and explain some aspect of how nature behaves, and it must be empirical, testable, predictive, and in principle falsifiable, that is, it must be possible to at least imagine evidence that would prove it wrong. Evolution is all of those, and the best--indeed the only-- explanation we have for the observed complexity and diversity of life.

There are many who believe that creation is an on going process, through evolution.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Anybody who understands evolution believes that, evolution's creativity is where new species come from.

 

[Ludlow]

Anybody who understands evolution believes that, evolution's creativity is where new species come from.

I don't pretend to understand evolution. I believe in it because what I have heard makes sense. But I also believe in a creative force which I also won't pretend to understand.

 

[Jinentonix]

I don't pretend to understand evolution. I believe in it because what I have heard makes sense. But I also believe in a creative force which I also won't pretend to understand.

Well, while evolution is undeniable, how life came to be is still one of the greatest axioms of science.

Dr Hubert Yockey, a brilliant man said the only real proof you need of evolution is the fact that life on Earth has continued unbroken since it first formed. How do we know this? Through the genetic code. We know that despite all the mass extinctions that have taken place, life somewhere managed to survive, thrive and flourish and ultimately diversify once again. And that diversity is amazing. One of the most mind blowing things I heard involving the evolutionary process was the fact that cetaceans (whales, dolphins etc) closest living relative is the hippo.

As for the creative process, there's tons of holes in both the scientific and religious explanations. But here's what we do know, there were quite a few very specific events that had to happen during the formation of our solar system and our planet for life to not only take hold on Earth, but survive for as long as it has.

I think philosophy and later religion played a role in trying to provide answers because of our own self-awareness. The entire premise of life is to live long enough to pass on your genetic material before you die, period. But as humans, that's not enough. We need a reason other than simply the continuation of life. We look for meaning in life. We don't want to believe that we exist merely to produce offspring, raise them and die. There has to be more to it than that because as humans we're, well...we're special, or at least like to think we are. But are we? I guess that all depends on whether there is or ever has been a civilization elsewhere out there.