Re: Commentary: Allow Debate About Climate Change, Evolution
- From: Gregory A Greenman <see@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:43:27 GMT
In article <ddd9116b-5ab0-4d97-bb44-69fe1b161fd2
@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, jspaceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<jspaceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> declared...
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As a senior in high school, I remember my advanced-biology teacher
requesting the class "Design a world and an organism to thrive within
it." I remember wondering how we could invent a world in several
weeks, but all four of us were up for the challenge. As I recall, our
creature was monocellular and lived in a nitrogen atmosphere. Of
course it never met the test of "thriving." The next topic on the
agenda was Darwin's theory of evolution.
Students infrequently questioned evolution because it was rarely
taught as "theory," but as undoubted, accepted fact. But I was left
wondering how "random mutations and natural selection," the basic
tenets of Darwin's theory, could have created complex life when a team
of relatively science-savvy students had only been able to "create" a
pitiful one-celled creature over several weeks.
Here's the creationist mentality: he's a senior in high school
and he thinks he already knows enough science to qualify as
"relatively science-savvy" wrt a complex biological project.
Next he'll be telling us that, based on his class in AppleSoft
Basic, AI is impossible.
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Greg
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