I enjoy skimming through letters to the editors. It's fun to laugh at retards. This one just made me lol while reading it.
Back story:
Evidently LA state legislators are trying to pass a bill to include "intellegent design" science class.
Evolution is not observable, still up for debate- NOLA.com
"Re: "BESE sending mixed message: 2 science teaching bills come up for debate," May 3, Page A2.
Teaching students that science is based on gathering observable, measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning should be a fundamental element of education. However, the graphics and text of many "science" books used today meld fact and opinions into fiction.
So it is with evolution. What began as a theory or hypothesis in the 1830s by Charles Darwin remains that today -- a theory. But loyal followers are not deterred by the fact that Darwin's theory, which would require millions upon millions of ever-evolving transitional species, has yet to be "proven" by a single transitional fossil.
An intelligent discussion of features of the universe and living things being explained by an intelligent cause, rather than by an undirected process such as natural selection, would be a worthwhile dialogue in a humanities class and one that would challenge young minds to absorb the known data and decide for themselves what they believe.
However, discussions of natural selection have no more business in a science classroom than intelligent cause. Each is a belief system. Neither is observable, empirical or measurable in a science classroom today.
While we can agree that religious instruction doesn't fit in science class, if you are going to introduce natural selection you must allow equal opportunity for other belief systems to allow for unbiased critical thinking in the students.
To introduce in the same textbook scientific process (hypothesis, experimentation, and measurement of results) and then opinions of events that occurred prior to recorded history without introducing other opinions muddles a child's thinking regarding the scientific process. "
Back story:
Evidently LA state legislators are trying to pass a bill to include "intellegent design" science class.
Evolution is not observable, still up for debate- NOLA.com
"Re: "BESE sending mixed message: 2 science teaching bills come up for debate," May 3, Page A2.
Teaching students that science is based on gathering observable, measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning should be a fundamental element of education. However, the graphics and text of many "science" books used today meld fact and opinions into fiction.
So it is with evolution. What began as a theory or hypothesis in the 1830s by Charles Darwin remains that today -- a theory. But loyal followers are not deterred by the fact that Darwin's theory, which would require millions upon millions of ever-evolving transitional species, has yet to be "proven" by a single transitional fossil.
An intelligent discussion of features of the universe and living things being explained by an intelligent cause, rather than by an undirected process such as natural selection, would be a worthwhile dialogue in a humanities class and one that would challenge young minds to absorb the known data and decide for themselves what they believe.
However, discussions of natural selection have no more business in a science classroom than intelligent cause. Each is a belief system. Neither is observable, empirical or measurable in a science classroom today.
While we can agree that religious instruction doesn't fit in science class, if you are going to introduce natural selection you must allow equal opportunity for other belief systems to allow for unbiased critical thinking in the students.
To introduce in the same textbook scientific process (hypothesis, experimentation, and measurement of results) and then opinions of events that occurred prior to recorded history without introducing other opinions muddles a child's thinking regarding the scientific process. "
