Banning Evolutionary Theory in Schools: The Upside

There's an upside to backward thinking creationists teaching that evolution is wrong.

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[Kamehamayhem]

Ones passion for religion is equivalent to ones lack of scientific knowledge. Did you ever notice how the best doctors, surgeons, scientists, etc, are all atheists or agnostics? Yeah, it's not really a coincidence.

I'll stick to my theory of evolution, natural selection, and plethora of objective, scientific evidence. You Bible thumpers can stick to your omniscient sky daddy, or spaghetti monster, or whatever the hell it is you people believe. The scientific community is fine without you.

[NickyDark17]

@supertrinko

We're still fucked.

Only get a mention of evolution.

[hobopopo6]

this is stupid. this whole system is flawed. competition based society is bullshit instead of working against each other we need to work with each other.

[supertrinko]

And what about those children that are forced to go to these "religious schools" by their parents?

[jiminiflix]

@fkbryce NO!!!!!!!!!! Your science is NOT SCIENCE its WRONG science!! Its fairy tales and "probablies"

[fkbryce]

@jiminiflix It's exactly the way science works except for one thing - you "boldly question" and even claim to "reason" based on your religious presuppositions, which you simply *know* are true, instead of looking at the issue objectively (which is again how science works).

It's very telling that the only people who have issues with evolution are fundamentalist Christians. If there really *was* another explanation, it wouldn't be based on Christ, it would be competing science.

[jiminiflix]

@fkbryce You call me a liar and speak to me like I am a child. YOu demean the science of creationism and myself by lording your belief as fact when it is not and the true scientist field knows it. There are some undisputed parts to evolution but when it crosses boundaries into fiction- people who are like me will at least boldly question and reason and counter the claim rather than dumbly believe it.

[fkbryce]

@jiminiflix I forgot to clarify that 2LoT is NOT the reason buildings fall down or food rots. It's all about Entropy, and Entropy relates to energy level, not physical structure.

So there you have it - the reason why biologists, who managed to graduate with PhDs in science, did not flunk freshman science along the way.

It's because they *understood* the science. I'm probably an idiot for trying to bring such understanding here, but there it is.

Biology does not violate physics.

[fkbryce]

@jiminiflix Note that ToE does NOT say life goes from less complex to more complex; it says life goes from being less suited to being more suited to the environment. Those successful babies have more babies, and *that* is the process of natural selection.

It's true that more successful life tends to be more complex, in the same way a successful pocketknife or toolkit has more options to deal with the environment.

Now, where does the ToE have anything to do with the 2nd Law of Thermo (2LoT)?

[fkbryce]

@jiminiflix The theory says that animals best suited to their environment (perhaps unfortunately described as "the fittest") will have more babies that survive.

That suitability is due to their characteristics, things which get passed from parent to offspring. New characteristics arise from mutations. These are completely random and generally not helpful. However, should a new characteristic provide some benefit, then that animal's babies are better "fit" for their environment.