[How science would be taught in a Fundie's ideal world]
1. In a typical day's one-hour science class session, about 45 minutes would be spent studying science, operational science, which is basically the science that most scientists agree about, whether they are Bible-believing scientists or materialistic-only scientists.
2. Then, about 12 minutes would be spent teaching origins science. The materialistic-only theories would be dismissed for a lack of objective evidence, and students would learn the wonderful truth of how the world has come to be the way it is today following creation, Adam and Eve, the flood, etc.
3. Then, the last three minutes would be spent reviewing Darwin's and the Neo's theories of evolution along with other myths of origins, like Greek mythology, American Indian legends and such as that. These wouldn't be taught for their education value, but as a warning to children that when they step away from objective reality, they open themselves up to becoming vulnerable to all kinds of kooky ideas.
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"The materialistic-only theories would be dismissed for a lack of objective evidence,"
1. In a typical day's one-hour science class session, about 45 minutes would be spent studying science, operational science, which is basically the science that most scientists agree about, whether they are Bible-believing scientists or materialistic-only scientists.
Even if you ignore the whole "Creation" bullshit prevelent throughout the post, that's a pretty damn retarded way to run a science class. I don't know how things work in the US, but up here in Canada we have a little something called "Units" in our science classes; you spend the entire class time teaching one basic subject, after you've covered everything important in one subject you move onto the next. You simply cannot teach anything important in only twelve minutes.
It's too bad Darwin is their pet cause. It would have been oodles easier to shoehorn God into nuclear physics.
Creationism is many things. It can be poetic and beautiful, it can be harsh and unremitting. It can be gentle and inclusive, it can also be strict and dogmatic. In fact it can be almost anything.
The creationists on that form are very fond of sneeringly referring to us as "materialistic-only" scientists, as if it was somehow derogatory, like "you silly water-only swimmers".
"Well, I think God created your mother with a bullet in her skull, and just made it LOOK like someone murdered her to test your faith." - Patches (#60663)
I is patently obvious that Dave has no experience with teaching. It is simply not reasonable to expect a class to be habitually planned and executed done to the minute like that.
"In a typical day's one-hour science class session, about 45 minutes would be spent studying science, operational science, which is basically the science that most scientists agree about, whether they are Bible-believing scientists or materialistic-only scientists."
But, to be a "Bible-believing scientist" one would not only have to believe in creationism, but a flat earth at the center of the universe, no rainbows until after the Flood, rain falling from windows in heaven, breeding striped goats by having the parent goats view stiped sticks, bats are birds, etc..
"materialistic-only theories would be dismissed for a lack of objective evidence" <choke>
Why the hell even pretend? You've basically admitted to omitting facts you find inconvenient, dismissing theories based on lack of evidence and providing several that have none, and teaching children that the Christian myth is vastly superior to all other myths for no real reason.
It's not fucking science. It's science fucking.
Do you do debates in science class in the states? That's odd.
Oh, sorry, just a Fundie ranting.
Thankyou Patches that was hilarious, I'm totally stealing it.
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