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Scientific literacy in the religion classroom
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Religion is already taught in High School and even Middle School. It's put within the course of "Social Studies". However, it's simply the people, history, and time lines that are looked upon.
As far as Creationist bullshit being taught in a Science classroom, this would be a different story. We have a church on every other corner, Wednesday and Sunday's to brainwash the children, if their parents want them to learn ID mess. I simply want for my children to receive a good education learning what is facts in Science, NOT Science fiction. LukeMC, are you in the "U.S." and if so what state did they have this leaflet in? I have never heard of it before, that's why I'm asking.....
Intelligence is the only true moral guide...
 (June 7, 2009 at 4:12 pm)Samson Wrote: LukeMC, are you in the "U.S." and if so what state did they have this leaflet in? I have never heard of it before, that's why I'm asking..... LukeMC Wrote:Now, because I don't live in the states, I live in England. The leaflet was a revision leaflet printed by a school teacher- nothing official. Apparently it represents what is learned throughout the curriculum though.
For a second there it sounded as if the leaflet was from the U.S. ....lolol (Sorry about that)
I know you said you don't live in the states, but I've heard that same expression from other countries as well talking about their own states in place...  It's the reason I wasn't for sure if you meant U.S. or somewhere else... Was the teacher that was handing it out "unofficially of course", doing this during school hours?? If so, did you talk with her or do you know someone else that gave their opinion about the leaflet?? Just curious..
Intelligence is the only true moral guide...
well I'm in Australia and went to Private religious schools for most of my teen life. They didn't teach us anything about evolution or the big bang or etc. Science classes were usually just about adding different chemicals together and seeing cool stuff happen.
Matt85, what the hell did they do for Biology then??
Intelligence is the only true moral guide...
RE: Scientific literacy in the religion classroom
June 8, 2009 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2009 at 1:28 pm by LukeMC.)
(June 7, 2009 at 8:56 pm)Samson Wrote: Was the teacher that was handing it out "unofficially of course", doing this during school hours?? If so, did you talk with her or do you know someone else that gave their opinion about the leaflet?? Just curious.. She handed them out during a lesson in the run-up to the exams. Nobody in my class said anything about the leaflets, mostly because nobody cared enough to read them. At this point (1 year ago) I hadn't fallen in love with science yet and had only just subscribed to RabidApe on youtube, so my exposure to atheism, science, religion and the debates that they encompass was very limited. However, I did attempt to debate the content going on the little knowledge I had. The teacher used arguments from design to prove that her God was real and that him creating the universe is more likely than random chance from an explosion of gases. All I could really say at this point was "that's not what big bang theory states. If you look at the science and analyse the red shift, would you disagree that the universe is expanding? Scientists don't make things up". Her response? "You should philosophy next year". I asked to take the course this year but we didn't have the staff. Shame really, I'd have been having a field day in there nowadays.
LOLOL...
If the debate comes up again, let her know that Creationist are the only ones claiming "Something came from nothing"... They have no problem telling you how there had to be a designer because of the complexity of it all. But by using that argument "Complexity", they fail to realize that it would require for their designer to have a designer as well.....
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(June 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm)Samson Wrote: LOLOL... Haha, sometimes I get the urge to stroll over to the humanities department just to have these discussion with her 
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