Re: Out of the mouths of babes
- From: "Marc" <mbuhler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 23 Apr 2006 02:26:53 -0700
Logos wrote:
Today I was with my four year old child, paging through an animal book.
Soon we came upon a page full of primate pictures.
I said to my little girl, "Anika, these are chimpanzees. We are related to
them. We are apes."
My little girl looked at me, perplexed. "What do you mean we're apes?
We're humans."
I though for a moment. "Well," I said, "We have many things in common with
apes. Don't you think we look like apes?"
She laughed. "No way, Dad! We don't have hand-feet like they do."
<<<< SNiP<<<
You're the adult. YOU do the teaching!
The question is - what are you going to teach?
Remember - if you build a solid basis for future education the
rewards will be great. If you give a bunch of biased hogwash as
I think you will, you will either have ignorant offspring or they
will learn the truth and understand how misinformed you are,
but you will have set them back with either outcome.
(signed) marc
"Siding with evolution does not really pose a serious problem
for many deeply religious people, because one can easily
accept evolution without doubting the existence of a non-material
being. On the other hand, the truly radical and still maturing view
in the neuroscience community that the mind is entirely the product
of the brain presents the ultimate challenge to nearly all religions."
Kenneth S. Kosik in Nature (vol 439, p138; 12 Jan 2006)
Neuroscience gears up for duel on the issue of brain versus deity
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7073/full/439138a.html
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