Teachers Can Mock Creationism - Court

The 9th Circuit Court ruled in favor of a high school teacher sued by a student upset over the fact that Christianity, literal interpretations of the Bible and creationism were mocked openly. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and Steve Oh discuss.

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[skippydeenice]

can and should be mocked openly

[ColostomyCake]

@Mogley52 "How did species survive if their vital tissues, organs, reproductive systems were still evolving?"

What in the holy fuck-wittery of shit makes you think a species would evolve before it's own vital organs?

Have you ever opened a biology book and read the line "fish were swimming about with half a heart thinking 'bugger me I feel abit light headed' " or "millions of monkeys died from starvation as they were trying to ingest fruit through osmosis"

Fuck sake, you people.

[FlourescentPotato]

@Vids4Dinner That's a shame.

[mintyvision]

i agree with ana. classrooms are not the right place to mock peoples beliefs, as its not the teachers job or right to mock the beliefs of the children in his class, but to teach them the truth so that they wont believe the bullshit.

[Vids4Dinner]

@FlourescentPotato well, you can possibly find exceptions.

Generally, I have experienced only childish people in College.

[NairuOnLife]

Creationism is a concept that's trying to be seen to have legitimate scientific relevance. When people go around,claiming it's an attack on their religion for someone to say it's magic, they discredit their peers attempts to further that attempt of separating Creationism from religion as a scientific principle. Can't get mad at people, even teachers, for discrediting a theory that still has little to no evidential standing in the scientific community,even if the theory's root is from a religion.

[FlourescentPotato]

@Vids4Dinner Only technically.

[ColostomyCake]

@slr150 I really can't understand where you're going wrong here..

the part of my comment in quotes was what someone else said.

he thought evolution taught that a species would evolve before evolving the organs needed for it to survive.

a "partial heart" when said in the context of complexity means something completely different to "half a heart" in the context of survival... I have no idea why you think what you said is even relevant.

[slr150]

@ColostomyCake

Keep repeating what I say, there is no argument in your false argument. Fact that your brain can't comprehend it, doesn't mean that it is not true. There is evidence so it is true.

[Heathen57]

I argued with teachers (and sometimes I won) but other than one that marked me down for disagreeing and proving her wrong, I had no problem with them teaching. Creationism is worthy of ridicule, but he probably shouldn't mock it. Just prove that it is a joke and let the students see it for themselves.