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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (77275)4/10/2000 4:37:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
That is one of the problems with the way the evolution issue is framed: there is no sensitivity shown for the fundamentalist parents who have to explain the contradiction of teachings to their children.

I suppose one could frame that the other way and say that one of the problems in raising children according to fundamentalist dogma is that sooner or later they will have to face the fact that all available physical evidence contravenes what you're teaching them. I remember very clearly the moment in which I rejected my parents' religion (and it was wholly my decision; they were quite devout). There is no doubt that their authority suffered a serious blow, but I think the only way they could have prevented it was by either not teaching me to think independently or not putting me in Sunday school, where my capacity for independent thought ran quickly afoul of the dogma.

It is a bit of a quandary for fundamentalist parents, but not for schools. Science teachers teach science, and science is the development of theories based on experimentation and observation of physical evidence. Asking them to teach a theory which has no basis in either, a theory which is based entirely upon passed-down accounts (and which must therefore be classed as mythology), simply to avoid embarrassing parents who accept the myth, is absurd. Asking them to ignore significant areas of inquiry for the same reason is equally absurd.

If parents choose to disregard science, that is their affair, but they have no right to expect that the schools will distort science to avoid challenging their authority.
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