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It's considered both a fact and a theory.
originally posted by: JohnFisher
That's treating it like fact.
originally posted by: robobbob
Using the State to silence the opposition is a loss to science and freedom, only tyranny wins.
originally posted by: robobbob
you just don't get it. once the "State" starts dictating official doctrine, it is truly a sign post on the road to tyranny.
originally posted by: Spiramirabilis
a reply to: Snarl
I've looked ... and for the life of me, I've never been able to see definitive evolutionary change "from one species to another."
And I've never been able to build a rocket ship that could get me all the way to the moon
That's mostly because I don't know how
Sometimes it's OK to admit that some people know stuff we don't - that's what school is for
I think
originally posted by: JohnFisher
a reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
Don't patronizing me my friend. I caught the passive agressiveness.
I'm well aware what a scientific theory is, but the theory of evolution is all too often portrayed as fact especially in media.
In academia there is zero tolerance for anything that contradicts it. That's treating it like fact.
originally posted by: angelchemuel
Well going by the headline, this whole subject only applies to PUBLIC SCHOOLS.....that's fee paying schools. So that leaves state schools...(government run) exempt then?
Sorry being a bit picky.....I did read the article too...so in and of itself....shows the author who wrote the article is not well informed. Creationism as far as I know and I've been around for over 50 years was and has never been taught in state schools....what the toffs in public school get up to....I have no idea.
originally posted by: angelchemuel
Creationism has never been taught in any way shape or form for the last 40 years in any government funded state school myself, my children or my friends or their children have attended.
originally posted by: angelchemuel
a reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
No I am exactly correct. Creationism has never been taught in any way shape or form for the last 40 years in any government funded state school myself, my children or my friends or their children have attended.
The new verbiage changes this, precluding all public-funded schools — present or future — from teaching creationism as evidence-based theory.