Science wars

SO I was browsing the news this morning when I came across another article that goes through the reason of why it is a bad idea to teach "intelligent design" in america's classrooms.

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Maybe I should stop posting articles that I agree with.

Anyway, back to posting my thoughts on the subject.

I am all for freedom of religion. And if you don't want to believe in science I'm not going to force you. But in return you shouldn't force me or my kin to sit through religious rhetoric and call it science.

It's disturbing to think that we would actually have elected officials trying to enforce this course of action.

And I think that this course directly contradicts freedom of religion. Not only because it forces religious doctrine on children, but because it eliminates all other creation theories out of the equation. If you have a youngster of another faith in those classrooms you are effictively confusing them by saying that their faith is dogma, but that creationism is science.

What Kind Of Crap Is That?!?!?!

Do these people even have a CLUE as to how damaging this is going to be over the long term?

We see every year an increase in the necessary level of education in order just to survive. And all this will accomplish will be to confuse future generations about what science really is.

And what happens when these people get to college, and are told that what they learned in school was false forced upon them by religious institutions that couldn't accept that their dogma wasn't the truth they always claimed it to be.

I hate being lied to, and I'm not alone. What do you want to bet that this actually hurts the religious establishment in the long run as those kids learn that they were lied to.

Kids aren't stupid. And they'll figure it out.

SO to close. Leave religion to the church services and parents. Leave science to the scientists.