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I heard from a good friend of mine today that in Minnesota they are trying to pass a law that would allow schools to teach Evolution but frown on the teaching of Creation. Now of course that is a debate that is about as old as apple pies and baseball, but why does it keep come up nearly every year? It makes little sense to be, and I am an Evolutionist.
First of all, I should re-state what I am. I am a Theistic Evolutionist, meaning, I believe in Evolution, but I also believe in God, and that God started everything and then let His Nature that he started take it's own course. A lot of people say that it is cheating to say that, because it takes the best of both worlds and tries to tie them together and make friends of both camps. Well that may be so, but it isn't the nice easy package that everybody thinks it is, after all, by trying to show that both camps can stand side by side, a Theistic Evolutionist isn't accepted in either camp. Now, do not get a Theistic Evolutionist mixed up with a Deist that nearly believes the same thing, but the difference is, a Deist thinks that God indeed started everything up and let nature take it's course, but he would go farther and say that God (or some supreme being) had absolute nothing else to do with His creation. Now a T.E. would say that God still intervened when He needed to, but kept his Nature mostly to itself. He more intervened with his people.
So anyway, back to the topic at hand. Why are Evolutionists so afraid of that they cannot allow other theories to be taught in the school systems? After all, every idea, every story, everything that talks about the creation of this world, no matter what, is all theory. Because frankly, if anybody was indeed there, they have probably died by now and forgot to write down what they experienced/saw happen. So everything, from the scientific theories to all (and there are a LOT) of the Religious theories (indeed they too are theories) can say their piece, but in the end hands down they have one blanket to cover them all, and that blanket is called Faith.
Now once again, forgive me, I will come back to my subject, what is Evolution so afraid of? Now, of course Evolution should be taught in schools, after all it is a theory that a lot of people hold to. So why should Evolutionists be so afraid to have other theories be taught along side? After all, Evolution has the most physical evidence out of all of the other theories. Sure the physical evidence has some holes in it, but look at Creationism, the only thing really backing it is a written piece of work that is probably written in poetic language to begin with. Also, Creationism has some very little physical evidence through anomalies. So, one has to have a lot more faith to believe in an actual seven day creation. However, different sorts of creationism could and also should be taught a long side of it, like T.E. for instance. But also, other religion's creation stories should be taught. Because, in the end, they are ALL myths, no one was there, no one can remember anybody who was alive when the world was created, and no one has any actual reliable evidence to support one said theory. All of the theories have are good evidences that point toward them and people who have faith in them.
Now, let us talk about the educational system itself and it's talk of trying to get ideas out of schools. Now, it hurt me a lot to write that sentence. People (educators) trying to get ideas out of schools. Now how in the world can one have a rounded education if one is only taught a very narrow way of thinking? Yes, I do realize that you cannot teach EVERYTHING, but one can teach more than just one side of an argument. Teaching one side of an issue doesn't exactly sound like education, but more like propaganda.. hmm, interesting. So, if you took teachings of other origins of the world out of school, what kind of propaganda is that? Well, not exactly the most important issue the school teaches, but if this sort of stuff gets past, then where will this madness end? That democracy is the only good government and all others are bad so let's not teach that? Wow, that does sound firmiller. You hear about socialism in schools, sure, you hear about Red China, and Russia, but you never hear about Canada. Ok, now that might be going too far, I don't mean to sound like Art Bell, but it is worth thinking about. But I was always taught, by the same system that is trying to take out all other theories of the organs of this universe/world, that you should look at all sides of an issue, as many sides as you possibly can and then choose which is best for you to believe in, or what side of the issue that you like the best, or that makes more sense. But it is easier to just teach one side of something isn't it? So, perhaps it isn't propaganda, but indeed, just laziness. I understand laziness; sometimes it is just easier to be lazy and it doesn't really affect much, but in this case, it can be VERY dangerous. Laziness in education is never a good thing; it can only lead down a road of darkness back into Plato's Cave.
That I think, is the main issue of this whole issue, it isn't whether God has a place in the schools, or if anybody has time to each several opposing views, but how lazy our educational systems are becoming. Perhaps, some teachers will say anything so that they won't have as much to worry about, and as much to grade. This kind of thinking only hurts one group of people, not the teachers, they get paid no matter what they teach, no this just hurts the students and their education. But then the teacher says, o, who cares what we teach, the students don't pay attention anyhow, and Friends is almost on.. Maybe I am being extreme here, but test scores are low, and I am not going to blame the kids.
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