Should we teach both evolution and religion in school?

Posting this type of nonsense is not helping your cause.

Again, an incisive critique of these so-called "scientists" with their so-called "chemistry" You're right, we gotta stop testing people on this stuff.On an unrelated note, do you work for the Chinese government?

I took a course on human evolution in college. On the first day the Professor said that they understood that this may be a controversial topic for some students and that you didn't have to believe a word that they were teaching you. What you would be tested on is your ability to explain the current scientific understandings of human evolution.So, the understandings don't even have to be right for you to be tested on them.

Is that the special kind of freedom where you get to lie about reality? Rather poorly executed false dichotomy, wouldn't you say? Do you troll/poe so many places that you can't even take the time to pretend you're trying? Getting boooooring....

I taught a college course that included evolution and related subjects. On the first day I passed out the casts of three innominates (half of the pelvis). They were modern human, a chimpanzee, and an Australopithecus africanus. I asked students to group the three innominates into two groups based on morphology.They all grouped the human and Australopithecus together because the shapes were so similar, even though the Australopithecus and the chimpanzee innominates were closer to the same size.Never had a problem after that.

Great idea! Playing with the casts was one of my favorite parts of the course!

Evolution is clearly a scientific fact, it is also clearly a scientific fact that evolution can not happen without DNA to mutate and or combine DNA of both parent organisms, in order for evolution to happen. Evolutionary theory does not explain where DNA came from, it can not. Now that said evolution is a wonderful thing as it allows the human race to, for instance produce better food crops, corn being one. If you could invent an organism or life process, that would adapt itself to changing conditions, and thereby improve itself over time, would you not do this? Sure you would, as this would free your time to do even more inventing, why must evolution and ID be totally separate? Why can evolution by DNA code changes, not be an engineered process? If you have the answer, you are a fool, because at the moment, this answer is beyond the knowledge curve of the human race, yet so many know for sure what is true......! The only thing that you can truly be sure of, is that 99.9999 percent of all knowable knowledge, is unknown.

There is absolute evidence for evolution.There is zero evidence of any designer and certainly not an intelligent designer.

I'm with ya. Actually, the principles in the Theory of Evolution can be applied to pre-DNA molecules and offer some explanation. For example, the RNA world hypothesis: involves random mutation and natural selection acting on RNA before DNA ever exists.The key component to evolution that you need is imperfect replication, not necessarily actual DNA. Hypothetically speaking, you might worry that it would evolve past you. Kinda like how we're accidentally driving the evolution of more dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It can/could definately be an engineered process. But ID makes no attempt to explain that. Oh The question you seem to be asking, as opposed to "why not ID*", is why can't evolution be considered to be planned, like by God or something. The answer to that is that it can. Theistic Evolution is a thing.*ID is a specific anti-evolution movement, not a general God-accepting approach to the question

I don't see freedom as an opportunity to lie do you?Let me know when you see a half monkey man and I'll make sure you can have your medication.
In the mean time don't lose your hold on what others are saying, because your opinion must line up with theirs, unless of course you have a resource of knowledge that puts you on an equal footing, something like nature and revelation. I am sorry if they don't belong to you, its a pity you would turn down such a good offer for popularity and self gratification.

In your case I'd have to agree.
You see that's rude what I said, but that's what you get without ID, you are of far more value than an accidental complex mole.Edited by Colbard, : add

Because one is a science which follows the scientific method while the other is the exact opposite, following scripture and dogma.And, welcome to the site!

Well because when we observe these changes there aren't any engineers involved.Otherwise, not a bad first post, welcome aboard.

Are you talking here about the copious "ape-men" found in the fossil record?

Are you sure? Because you're the only one here making bald statements that have no factual support. For instance here you imply Capt Stormfield believes there's such a thing as "half monkey men" when he never said anything of the sort: In fact no one here, except apparently you, is confusing monkeys with apes. This is a bit confused, but it sounds like you're suggesting that people should only accept knowledge they gain themselves. Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Current discoveries build on past discoveries. If every researcher started from scratch there'd be very little scientific progress.The current generation passing on their knowledge to the next is the practice in all fields of human endeavor, be it science, knitting, plumbing, art or football. Perhaps God's greatest gift is our ability to pass knowledge on to others, a quality possessed by other animals to only a very limited extent.Science class is where what science has learned is imparted to students, just as all the other subject classes are where knowledge in those subjects is imparted to students. Evolution, an ancient Earth and an ancient universe are what science has learned, so that is what we teach in science class. A global flood, a young Earth and flood geology have found no scientific support, so we don't teach them in science class.--Percy