Should we teach both evolution and religion in school?

But the same amount of people believed that the Earth was flat and that the sun revolved around it.Appeals to Population are fallacious because the number of people believing it doesn't make it right.

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.

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

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

0.01% of 24 hours is 8.64 seconds.Your profile shows that you post an average of 2.4 messages per day.That's an average of 3.6 seconds per message. No wonder they're such shit.Edited by Cat Sci, : added smiley

He kinda admitted to trolling in Message 800:

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So if and when people are not prepared to listen, give them what they want to engage in, -useless arguments.

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Pssh. You give them too much credit.They're just backpedaling and playing clean up. They didn't really foresee the replies that they were going to get.They didn't actually set up that slow pitch for us to knock out of the park, they really did think they knew how to pitch a ball.They were not ready for the big leagues, and now they're trying to act like it was all a big set-up.Don't fall for that crap.