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I'm not going to Biology today...
The professor posts his notes online, usually a week at a time, so students can look over them ahead of time, read up on the topics, and whatnot.
Today, in keeping with our week's focus on Evolution, he's going to be discussing "debates about evolution". A quick analysis of the notes has revealed that rather than simply discussing the questions and moving on, he's going to be spending half his time (or at least half his slides) in a fairly aggressive attack against religion in general. I've already heard all the arguments, probably in much more detail than he's going to give them, so I'm not going to bother going. I don't particularly like being told that I'm wrong for a half-hour straight, and I really want to like this professor.
Religion is philosophy, not science, and I really don't think they should be spending this much time in a science class discussing it.
(Just in case you were wondering, I'm an agnostic on the issue of origins - I don't know what happened when the earth was created, I don't know how humankind came into existence, but most importantly, I know that it doesn't really matter. God could have used any method he felt like to create the Earth and my salvation would still be the same. I'd rather worry about more pressing issues than how this ball of rock came to be.)
The professor posts his notes online, usually a week at a time, so students can look over them ahead of time, read up on the topics, and whatnot.
Today, in keeping with our week's focus on Evolution, he's going to be discussing "debates about evolution". A quick analysis of the notes has revealed that rather than simply discussing the questions and moving on, he's going to be spending half his time (or at least half his slides) in a fairly aggressive attack against religion in general. I've already heard all the arguments, probably in much more detail than he's going to give them, so I'm not going to bother going. I don't particularly like being told that I'm wrong for a half-hour straight, and I really want to like this professor.
Religion is philosophy, not science, and I really don't think they should be spending this much time in a science class discussing it.
(Just in case you were wondering, I'm an agnostic on the issue of origins - I don't know what happened when the earth was created, I don't know how humankind came into existence, but most importantly, I know that it doesn't really matter. God could have used any method he felt like to create the Earth and my salvation would still be the same. I'd rather worry about more pressing issues than how this ball of rock came to be.)