tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post5396431973931240957..comments2024-03-18T15:11:23.368-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: Oklahoma is Just Raising Questions in the ClassroomVixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-23427731919971700832013-02-25T00:10:04.024-05:002013-02-25T00:10:04.024-05:00What gets me is the idea that primary education is...What gets me is the idea that primary education is the level at which they are presuming one is conversant enough with the subject matter to take on something like the last 150 years of the theory of evolution impacting on biological science. The evidence in the fossil record and DNA have only strengthened the case for evolution--and yet it's presumed that a bright-enough middle-schooler is going to start a course of study that just blows *that* old thing out of the water. That would be a rare'un, that middle-schooler. If we didn't get rehashed Behe that the student him or herself didn't understand, we'd prety much get "Goddidit". <br /><br />My version of "teach the controversy" is "go over the Dover trial" and that's it. "ID lost--let's now talk about real science."Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-48637569577497262662013-02-24T17:40:40.934-05:002013-02-24T17:40:40.934-05:00Don't you think these people must be kind of u...Don't you think these people must be kind of unfamiliar with classrooms? I've never heard of anybody getting punished by the teacher for incorrect beliefs. (I did have some issues once with a logic professor who believed propositions existed, but that was grad school.) You could publicly proclaim it was all created last Tuesday by the Flying Spaghetti Monster as long as showed you knew how the question was supposed to be answered.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.com