Re: Why can’t students critically analyze evolutio

On Oct 31, 7:18 am, Frank J <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 31, 9:16 am, wf3h <w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Oct 31, 7:56 am, Sapient Fridge <use_reply_addr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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On Oct 31, 6:49 am, Frank J <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I read that some students receive as much as 16 hr. of evolution in
various science classes throughout high school. That’s a full waking
day. There are on the order of 1000 days during the high school years,
so that means that for as much as a tenth of a percent of their waking
hours students are forbidden to critically analyze evolution.

was it mencken who said about hoover (?) when he died that 'the only
man who wrote a simple declarative sentence with 7 grammatical errors
is dead'.

this post is so filled with propaganda that it's amazing creationist
know how to walk upright, given the reasoning level betrayed here.

first, where are students forbidden to 'criticize' evolution? and what
does this mean? how is criticism of evolution different than, say,
criticism of quantum theory or relativity? why focus ONLY on
evolution?

a host of questions is raised...but none is addressed...

But that’s not enough for me. As a taxpayer I demand that all of us
taxpayers share the burden of paying for students to learn what * I *
want them to learn, and not just during that measly 99.9% of their
time that they are already free to do so.

how about teaching them science? when did that stop being good enough
to teach?

and evolution is science

Parody detection failure?

I took the post as a comment on how little time was actually given to
teaching evolution, and that the creationists are trying to ruin even
that small amount of teaching by demanding that it be criticised rather
than taught.

This was the giveaway:

 > Yes I know that the material they are taught has withstood 150 years
of
 > critical analysis

'tis true...but it's such a wonderful, classic creationist argument
that has stood the test of time ;-)

Yes, but no anti-evolution activist artist would dare include, as Paul
Harvey would say, "the rest of the story". But what really unnerves me
is how their sympathetic audiences rarely if ever think it through to
see what is really being demanded. Which is, ironically, the very
"play the victim and demand handouts" approach that they otherwise
find offensive.

Thinking it thru is something which they are taught *not to do, from
toddlerhood.

Also, fundamentalists are not noted for their skill in seeing the
world thru another person's eyes.

They have no idea what "What's good for the goose is good for the
gander" means, unless you're talking about barnyard fowl.

Kermit

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