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Religious Right Pseudo-Historian Barton: The Founding Fathers Wanted Schools to Teach Creationism

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RanchTooth6/09/2011 6:33:28 pm PDT

re: #105 Naso Tang

You cannot place it next to evolution in a classroom and then have a real teacher knock it down point by point simply because that would amount to a religious insult to those who do believe and the parents would not stand for it.

You absolutely can (and should), and if that’s how they feel, that’s their problem. Not my fault they believe faulty science/logic.

If however you tried to do this what would happen is that some schools would have creationist teachers who would in effect teach creationism while knocking down evolution. Poor scientific method perhaps, but creationists don’t care about that.

That’s a really good point. I guess all I could say is that those teachers are poor teachers from the get go… but we already agree on that.

The only way evolution can be taught is as science without reference to creationism. The logic will do its own work in the minds of those willing to learn.

Agreed.