Creationism in my High School

ORAL HISTORY PROJECT: We often forget that our experiences will be important to historians some day. This is my own story about how an evolution- creationist in my 7th grade high school experience about 1977 in rural northern Pennsylvania.

The excellent 2008-08-24 NYT article:
A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html

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• evolution
• creationism
• id
• intelligent
• design
• high
• school
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• Darwin

[friedie1jeff]

Science teachers who feel uncomfortable teaching evolution should not be science teachers.

[GuillemotWatcher]

The war for the minds of children divides into 2 camps.

Camp 1, those who teach their children to BELIEVE what they believe, because it justifies them not questioning their parents beliefs & satisfies the instructions of their parents to teach their children well.

Camp 2, those who teach their children to THINK, so they are armed to solve that which is currently unknown, & the unknown questions that will resultantly arise.

The former perpetuates, the latter advances.

[junglesurvivalcamp]

fun story

[scrap222666]

@VeryImagesozo IMHO the closest we can get to moral absolutes is actually that the majority rule. Well by default we will never know if moral absolutes exist as they are absolute. We will always have a subjective view from our little brain and that brains ability to absorb vision/info/sound etc. Still "moral absolutes" is what the majority agree on. Your moral might by your moral code but if the 2 other guys say no don't steal food and kill our cattle and rape our wives we will put you to jail.

[scrap222666]

@VeryImagesozo Ahh about the government and court forms, again easy. This is mankind trying to fix the majority rules problem. As the saying goes democracy is flawed and exactly for these reason as majority still want to press through their decisions. But the world isn't 2 vs 1 or 100 vs 20. The factions are more balanced on most issues and in case of countries and states outside population and global opinion. Still as it stands ultimately even democracy was voted in by the majority.

[VeryImagesozo]

@scrap222666 OK...fair enough...Occums razor...the simple answer is the best answer. What about the supreme court? It is made up of a minority (nine judges) that often rule against the majority, who is governed by the rule of law, a constitutional republic. Dictators throughout history have ruled over the majority. Your premise assumes the absence of a supreme being and of moral absolutes. My premise is based upon the existence of a supreme being and the existence of moral absolutes.

[scrap222666]

@VeryImagesozo Well I like to think simply and majority do rule. If there were 3 people alive and 2 of them wanted to kill the 1 they will force the issue through. Majority do rule ultimately, of course I don't like it either. About life beginning, life itself is a human made technical term. Doctors had a hard time determining when a person is dead just some time ago. I mean technically every sperm is a person. I would go for heart/brain activity.

[VeryImagesozo]

@scrap222666 The problem with majority rule, or as some call it mob rule, is that the majority is not always right. What if the majority decided that you should no longer live? Does that give the majority the right to commit murder? Concerning the question of when life begins, would it not be prudent to be cautious and to assume life begins at conception, in order to avoid terminating a precious innocent life by mistake? Consider the testimonies of those who survived abortions.