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Author Topic:   Education about LIFE? while we can!
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Message 1 of 2 (403501)
06-03-2007 2:04 PM


One aim of education is to supply students with facts. And during the span of a students education that is one heck of a lot of facts! What is a round shape called? What’s inside an orange? What happens when we fill a balloon with air? Why don’t we fall off the earth?
Another aim of education is to provide students with common answers to these questions, and an environment and tools with which to test these answers for themselves.
Is it not so the best way forward when teaching creation and evolution to students in our schools? Give them the facts about creation, give them the facts about evolution, provide them with common answers, sit back and let them come to their own conclusions.
Regarding evolution versus creation I would guess that out of 100 students about to leave full time education it would be split around 45/45 with a ”don’t know’ of 10.
A poll for the BBC's Horizon series here in the UK in January 2006 questioned people regarding their beliefs about the development of life on Earth and the results were:
” 48% Evolution
” 39% Creationism/Intelligent Design
” 13% Don't Know
Let's call it a draw shall we!
Would anyone care to give their reasons as to why teaching BOTH creation and evolution in schools is wrong? Could we not have equal time allocated to both and then students can decide later on in their education whether they would want to develop their studies about either, or both? Could we not just call the subject LIFE?
In our present climate, and I mean that quite literally, I would advocate that we teach both and here is my reason why. I believe we have a common ground here on which both could meet, and one that is relevant to both and takes nothing away from either viewpoint, it’s called extinction. From a creationist or evolutionist viewpoint, I wouldn’t deny, where we came from is important, that debate can go on forever. But do we not now have a more pressing argument to discuss? Human life on Earth whether created or evolved is in danger of extinction. Let’s forget the rest of natural life just for now because they have an uncanny way of coming through floods, volcano eruptions, meteorite collisions . . . let’s debate about us, humans, and our future, and let's start in our classrooms.
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06-04-2007 10:15 AM


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