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Originally Posted by samcol
If the schools in California want to teach evolution and schools in Utah want to teach creationism thats fine. Why should we force one or the other on the ENTIRE nation?
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Um because creationism is entirely unscientific and wrong and evolution in it's basic form has been reaffirmed by countless peer-reviewed and repeatable experiments?
this debate reminds me of something I read recently in an Alan Moore interview--talking about how he was expelled from high school and had to educate himself:
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All too often education actually acts as a form of aversion therapy, that what we're really teaching our children is to associate learning with work and to associate work with drudgery so that the remainder of their lives they will possibly never go near a book because they associate books with learning, learning with work and work with drudgery. Whereas after a hard day's toil, instead of relaxing with a book they'll be much more likely to sit down in front of an undemanding soap opera because this is obviously teaching them nothing, so it is not learning, so it is not work, it is not drudgery, so it must be pleasure. And I think that that is the kind of circuitry that we tend to have imprinted on us because of the education process.
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Not some catch-all answer, but a pretty astute identification with one of the major problems with education.