Here Is What Louisiana Schoolchildren Learn About Evolution
Fifth graders in some state-sponsored schools in Louisiana study both creationism and evolution as competing theories. “Fact or Theory?”
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frankc14 5 months agoI would say that this high level of education is preparing the children of Louisiana perfectly for their future careers in burger flipping and pizza delivery. I mean realy who cares? It’s just another southern state destroying the future of their kids. Maybe they like being poor.
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paulle 5 months agoMost of you Creator deniers are like petulant children. Ive never seen so many ignorant and self appointed tyrants gathered in one single forum, frothing from the mouth, demanding that the most profound and consequencial questions have been answered!! That the conversation must be over and any desenters loaded onto trains and sent to concentration camps. Rings so loudly of Marx and Lenin and want to be Algore! Of course this observation comes as a shock to you as no one is as self-unaware as the self righteous. Along with many other flaws in your character, most of you must face the fact that your education has exceeded your intellect. Evolution only explains transitions from one life form to another. Evolution has no explanation for how life got started in the first place. Darwin was very clear about this. Dawkins as well. >Evolution Morons< all of you. Hopefully this is enough to make most of your heads explode, regardless survival of the fittest demands your eventual extinction. Promising the rest of us intelligent conversation regarding
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adamc35 5 months agoWow, for a start, if anyone is being tyrannical it would be you. Believe as i do or die! How very Christian of you.
Yes we do understand that evolution does not explain how we all started, but then neither does saying god did it. Saying god did it bring up more questions such as where did god come from? And if you express disbelief in something so simple as a single cell organism just ‘popping’ into existence, how can you explain something so complex as a god just coming into being? My next question would have to be if we are of intelligent design, how come the human body is so flawed? Your appendix, an organ we have no need for can kill you. Teeth, so important in the consumption of food are so easily ruined and do not repair themselves as most other parts of you do. Your susceptibility to disses. There are loads of things that make no sense when looked at from a (not so) intelligent design point of view, but do when looked at from the point of evolution.
These are but 2 questions brought up if you subscribe to the creationist doctrine, there are more. May I suggest using the Internet for its intended use of information sharing instead of what you currently use it for, making silly, contradicting statmens (saying you don’t believe in evolution, then saying all evolutionists will die out because of evolution.) about things you do not seem to understand, and looking up porn. -
krissieh 5 months agoWow, Paulie. You just gave a spot-on example showing us all what can happen when bible-whackers are allowed to write textbooks for our school kids. Your ignorance made me feel embarassed for you and a little angry at whatever public school you attended, as a child. -Unless, of course, you were home schooled, which would actually explain a lot…
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lunamoongirl 5 months agoFYI: appendix contains immune tissue and may not be completely vestigial. Recurrent laryngeal nerve is something that goes from high up in the brainstem all the way down the neck, then ascends all the way back up and finally innervates its target in the upper neck. The cause: evolution from amphibians (or fish specifically? I’ve forgotten) to mammals. Also, retinal development is an example of ~ridiculously complex and non-intelligent design given the cell layer order.
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fredh6 5 months agoCreationism and Evolution are not mutually exclusive. The ‘7 days’ in the story of creation are just interpretations for longer periods of time. The ancients did not use large numbers like ‘millions’ and ‘billions’ commonly, so they simplified the number to retain the story but not the details.
God and science are also not mutually exclusive. In fact, the more you understand about science, the most clear it becomes that something manipulates that very grains of matter that surround us.
Either way, you will never be able to prove God does not exist. For if there is a God that created the very fabric of the universe, surely God has a way to pull the veil over our eyes. -
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LegendOfBacon 5 months agoThe logic in that last paragraph is so circular I could follow it forever and ever and ever…
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Sharon Johnson 6 months ago
I would like to say that as a student from Louisiana schools, I was never taught that. This may be taught at a christian private school but not a public one. We were taught evolution and the big bang just like everyone else along with a few other scientific theories. Creationism was never brought up except in private conversation between students.
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Sharon Johnson 5 months ago
It kills me how ill informed the author is and the fact that everyone on hear has believes that this is true.
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Jake G 6 months ago
My heart hurts for the children that are taught this crap (and I’m sure it’s not just in Louisiana, but in dangerous homeschool situations & the like all over the nation) because they depend on the adults in their life to teach them, and these damaged adults are spreading harmful misinformation to innocents in order to further the spread of their own insanity. This is how, in some more progressive nations, religion has been nearly completely stamped out or is seen as a refuge for the mentally ill—because these crazies who place their faith on a pedestal above fact and reality drive out all the moderates and intelligent people.
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anonymous 6 months ago
GREAT JOB SETTING YOUR STUDENTS UP TO SUCCEED, Louisiana. I mean, you’re seriously trying to compare a LEGITIMATE SCIENTIFIC THEORY with decades of research supporting it to what a book written several thousand years ago is trying to claim. You might as well deny the existence of gravity while you’re at it.
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LikaLaruku 6 months ago
Look up “ants” over at CRACKED & tell me they’re not higher on the food chain than humans.
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ericv3 6 months agoBehemoth (pronounced BEE-hem-oth, not bee-HEE-moth) was a cow. Leviathan, which is what they’re clearly trying to pass off as Behemoth, was a whale. Kronosaurus didn’t even look like that, it was larger around the neck and could have been related to alligators. There’s some debate as to just how large it really was.
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watch me boogie 6 months ago
What a shock that one of the Worst states has one of the shittiest educational systems. You don’t become great by being ignorant. I just feel bad for the kids, who are innocent victims of adult ridiculousness.
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craigg5 6 months agoLet Creationists teach and believe what they want but absolutely not while using public funds. The issue has already been settled in the courts so this case will also, and the private school system will have to pay all legal costs, lose their subsidies. The well-meant but illegal teaching of Creationism is exactly why Christianity is on the wane and the numbers of non deists are increasing. When these brainwashed Christian children grow up they realize they have been lied to and leave their religion.
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