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Originally Posted by alansmithee
The problem is that you can't disregard the voice of the majority and still remain a democratic country. People should be able to decide what their children are taught in schools.
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When it comes to a hard science, yes you CAN disregard what people want their children taught.
It's science class. We teach facts there. ID has no facts. The absolute bedrock of science if the ability to be falsible. ID cannot be falsified.
Democracy doesn't work for something like this. We can't just go and ask all the parents, "Give us the details of this bit of science" They don't know, they didn't spend their lives gaining a graduate degree in a field of science and studying something to find out what the truth is. Science doesn't work through majority opinion.
Children should be taught the truth, not what parents want to teach them. Schools have a duty to educate.