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creationism and evolution
Posted on: December 5, 2008 - 11:26am
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creationism and evolution
Hi everybody. i am student and new here and i have something to ask you all. hope i can get proper political answers. what are the benefits of government by teaching Creationism in schools instead of evolution?? thanks
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There really aren't any. Christians may think there are because it promotes their fantasy and students may like that it's easier to say "God did it" than deal with that difficult evolution stuff. For society it's bad - it promotes ignorance and makes the place it's taught a laughingstock.
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Benefits??? Consequences would be a better term.
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I'm curious as to how one would 'teach' Creationism in the first place. If it could be 'taught', it would not benefit the government in any particular way that I can think of. It's not as though you live in a theocracy... yet.
BigUniverse wrote,
"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
Man, it would take years just to get through every creation story. I'm not sure it's appropriate, either: what about the stories that have the world being vomited up by a hung-over God? Or the ones that include Gods raping each other, and the world being born as a consequence? And so on.
On the other hand, the benefits of teaching creationism over evolution are many. You end up with a very ignorant population, and ignorant people are easier to control than an educated population. There's the simplicity of writing and vetting textbooks: now, you can just Make Shit Up (tm) and pass it off as knowledge. It makes teaching science easier, too, as students no longer have to understanding populations, genetic drift, selection, adaptation, and so on. That section can be replaced by a single line: "God likes monkeys."
Oh, do tell.
Finally, it'd get the IDers to shut the hell up.
Of course, you'll have a bunch of pissed-off biologists up in arms, and raising an hellacious ruccus for a generation or two. But once everyone forgets all about that biology stuff (and the medicine stuff that goes with it), life will be much simpler.
Shorter. But simpler.
"Yes, I seriously believe that consciousness is a product of a natural process. I find that the neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers who proceed from that premise are the ones who are actually making useful contributions to our understanding of the mind." - PZ Myers
It could be advantagous to the state in that it helps keep the populace ignorant. If religion can be viewed as above reproach then so can actions of governments.
I can't think of one advantage of teaching creationism in public schools. Perhaps creationism could be taught in an elective class and I personally have no problem with that. Yet there is nothing for creationism to teach so it is unscientific. "God did it" doesn't explain anything and is based on dogma where science is not bound by the laws of the supernatural.
"Always seek out the truth, but avoid at all costs those that claim to have found it" ANONYMOUS
Now, due to the way you worded and correlated the third and fourth sentences, I'm assuming that you're implying an inquiry into the political benefits instead of the practical benefits. Is this correct? I don't hold much expertise in politics, but this appears to be a simple matter of the positions of politicians' constituents. If virtually all of your supporters are Christians, it certainly wouldn't hurt to be a proponent of "teaching alternative theories."
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Since we live in a country that seperates church and state I would find that problematic. However, hypothetically you're right. In a republic, the views of one group do not automatically supercede the views of another based just on who is the majority. The best thing a politician can do is to be neutral on the subject of religious based assertions in the public arena.
Religion is a personal and private matter that has no business mixing with the public education of children. The teaching of creationism is schools is a back door to the teaching of religion in public schools. The state can't do very much well so there is no reason to believe that they could be any better teaching religion. Essentially, in a system such as ours it undermines the Bill of Rights.
"Always seek out the truth, but avoid at all costs those that claim to have found it" ANONYMOUS
There might be some benefits to teaching children about some of the different creation myth, and about different religions in general. Not in a science class because it is in no way science, but perhaps in some social studies class. People may benefit from knowing what many other people take as fact. This would especially be true for religious people who often don't seem to know anything about any religion but there own.
I had asked it for academic purpose, anyway thanks alot