Did they teach me 2 different ways to solve a problem: evaluating the problem and praying for the answer? No, but oddly enough the praying for answers came naturally once I learned corporeal punishment was the price for wrong answers. I'm sure my classmates would say the same.
But on a more serious note, trying to learn how to do long division and studying creationism vs evolution is a different ball game. Since evolution is still just a theory, and not a law, why not present another possible theory. I don't advocate doing too deep into creationism in a science class but it can't hurt to briefly mention, "And there is another less scientific theory, creationism, that competes with evolution. It's the theory that...blah blah blah." -----Original Message----- From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Discovery Magazine article on the candidates science policies I think the issue is teaching it as a competing theory against evolution. When you were in math class, they didn't teach you two different ways of solving a problem -- one by evaluating the equation and the other by praying for the answer. On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Won Lee wrote: > Also, the idea that teaching ID in school will undermine education is > non-sense. Certain Catholic schools, which have religious studies, > are a > clear example of students getting a good education despite learning > about > creationism. Moreover, while I attended grammar school in S Korea, > we had > a good amount of Buddhism studies and Korea's math scores cannot be > refuted. I believe Japan and China is pretty much the same way. So if you want to love me then darlin' don't refrain Or I'll just end up walkin' In the cold November rain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275892 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
