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[biolabchick]

My brother's friend Alicia posted this to her LiveJournal, but I think it's important for everyone to read

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[jackflaps]

See, this is why it'll be awesome when the Six Apart merger goes through and people can trackback.

[darklorelei]

Ok, so, Salon hates me, but the one side is really angry at everything I saw, and the other side is giggling furiously at the mind-blowingly stupid Muslim comment.

[bexplant]

im sorry, i must've read that wrong. she couldn't've possibly compared the teaching of evolution to the terrorist hijackings of september 11th. surely, i need to get my glasses checked.

::infuriated::

--r

[biolabchick]

I know what you're thinking and I know why you're thinking it, but that's not what she meant. She is comparing the current movement to teach just intelligent design (aka creationism) in school to the right-wing Islamic fundamentalist groups. She's stating that by only teaching a religious theory and not teaching the prevailing theory (which actually has a lot of facts to back it up; just ask me about viral cancers and oncogenes), we are becoming the thing that we are supposed to be fighting.
This is a very simplistic answer, but she's comparing the right-wing religious groups to the Taliban.
~mkc

[biolabchick]

If you want me to get into it more later, then I will. I have to get to work right now.
~mkc

[bexplant]

no, she was quoting some idiot fuck-head who was comparing what i said she was.

--r

[starrysky07]

I'll admit that I couldn't finish reading the article, because the whole debate as to if evolution or creationism or both should be taught in school really bothers me. I was never taught either, because I live in the lovely state called Kansas. I never really thought about not being taught evolution until I came to Knox and we had to read "The Origin of Species" by Darwin in FP - let's just say I was really lost and when I explained to the professor why I was so confused he looked at me like I was crazy.

[biolabchick]

And the problem is that because everything in science is based on evolution, you are at a disadvantage in college. I'm keeping my opinion to myself, but I do believe in both creationism and evolution (I believe in the Big Bang and evolutionary theory, but everything had to come from somewhere).
When I learned evolution in high school (my advanced biology course), my teacher said outright, "I am going to teach you this because all of biology is based on this theory. I am not going to tell you where I stand on the issue, and I'm going to let you decide for yourself where you stand." That was one of the coolest things I had heard in school.
~mkc

[laira314]

Well said. There's nothing wrong with being religious, but there is something wrong with expecting the rest of the world to accommodate itself to your ideas in all areas at all times. Faith is not science and shouldn't be expected to be - or vice versa.

[laira314]

This is a part of American culture I will never understand. The fact that there is a debate about evolution or abortion for that matter is pretty ridiculous, but especially evolution. It's like a bad joke happening for real. I don't understand at all why there is an issue in the first place, and I have very little patience with the whole circus.

In my biology classes, there was sex ed (including an idea of what good sex ought to be like and what good sex isn't like) as a chapter on human anatomy and evolution as a part of natural history in junior high. It was just as big a deal as the stupid birds we had to memorize in high school. (Of course, in 7th grade sex ed, the guys were still pretty immature and made some stupid comments and spread the condoms we got all over the locker hall floor, which didn't happen with the stuffed birds in 11th grade.) And that's just what's normal.

[biolabchick]

At least you had sex ed. My health teacher in high school made it perfectly clear that he did not want to teach safe-sex sex ed.
~mkc