re: #397 tom from pv

We disagree here. Science education is NOT about teaching rote facts. Its about critical thinking, using quantitative analysis. If you will, its about providing an individual with the ability to construct his own cognitive model of the world.

A chimp can construct its own cognitive model of the world, just like creationists do.

You sound like you think children can duplicate all that has been learned just by teaching them what you call critical thinking. That is rubbish, and clearly nobody taught you critical thinking.

I say let the kld claim that the earth is only 6,000 years old. A half competent teacher should be able to coach that kid (and the class) into how to debunk those kinds of claims.

Obviously that has not worked very well with a large percentage of the population, has it? The reason is that people like you want to encourage everyone to think things out for themselves, before they have learned what their betters have worked out before them.

And that kid will be much better prepared for the real world he will live in. Look, the global warming hoax is far more damaging to us if the population believes.

I would be an idiot to take your word for that, since that is all you offer; but that is what you call critical thinking.

The politicians will ruin our economy if we allow things like cap and trade.

This is what you reduce your argument to?

Creationism is backwards, but nobody is going to raise our taxes or go to war over it.

You obviously don’t realize that that is the classic mantra of apologists for creationism and similar beliefs of ignorance. “Stupidity is unimportant because it does no harm….etc”