a high school biology teacher, concerned about the school board’s anti-evolutionist views, went to discuss the matter with the chairman of the board. the chairman responded to the teacher’s concerns with, “when my children come home from school, and they’ve had evolution biology class, we’re going to sit at the dinner table, and i’m going to have to tell them that you—the teachers—lied to my children.” incredible, right? makes you want to laugh, but at the same time terrifies and frustrates.
as of late, i’ve been on a documentary kick and just finished watching one BBC documentary that discussed “intelligent design.” i understand and have no objections against religious fundamentalists believing in what they want to, but i find it incredibly disturbing that people in the US are inclined to believe that creationism could be classified as a scientific theory to rival evolution. the idea that people are voluntarily stupid enough to even begin questioning whether creationism, or its pseudo scientific alter ego, could be plausible scientific truths for the origins of our being is preposterous—the only myths that should be taught in schools are Greek ones.
i’ll sum up with a quote i fell in love with regarding the creationists’ argument:
“what this does to science is it wastes a lot of time of scientists who could be getting on with their work. as far as i’m aware, in no other field of science does this happen. physicists don’t have to fight a kind of rearguard action against the sort of yapping terriers of ignorance the way that biologists do.”
-Richard Dawkins,a Darwinist advocate and professor at the University of Oxford.Posted 3 years ago with 0 notes
