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Andya Primanda
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Message 5 of 134 (55479)
09-15-2003 12:42 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by sconzey
09-14-2003 6:33 PM


G.G. Simpson's opinion
Forgove me for just quoting the opinion of G.G. Simpson on this alternative...
Taken from 'One hundred years without Darwin are enough' (1961)
quote:
Still another proposed, and actually used, solution is to present both sides of the case. Teach evolution under its own name as something that certain authorities believe. Also teach that certain other authorities do not believe it, and let the student decide for himself (or ignore the whole thing). This was hailed by some teachers at the institute as the most 'honest' compromise on the problem, but I am afraid I cannot agree. It is less honestbecause the student is less able to judge from data in his own handsthan teaching that some people say the earth is flat and some say it is round. It would be honest only if the teacher pointed out that the authorities who 'believe' in evolution ('believe' is a misleading word here, too) are, almost to a man, those who have actually studied the subject in a scientific way and that those who do not believe in it are, almost to a man, obviously ignorant of the scientific evidence and swayed by wholly nonscientific considerations. That is not a compromise that would suit an antievolutionary school board. It might occasionally work in a controlling community that was open-minded about science but subject to some sniping from antievolutionary minorities.
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