Just teach Darwinism; other theories flawed
One of today's hottest topics is the teaching of evolution in our public school system. This issue has not only caused many heated debates but it also has led to lawsuits and petitions.
Currently, the North Carolina Standard Course of Study states that public high school students "examine the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection including: development of the theory, the origin and history of life, fossil and biochemical evidence, mechanisms of evolution, and application (pesticides and antibiotic resistance)."
This curriculum has worked for years and should not be changed. Darwin's theory of evolution should continue to be the only theory taught in our public schools.
Why should other theories, such as intelligent design, creationism or the spaghetti monster, be taught?
There is no scientific evidence to back these other theories. Intelligent design proponents and creationists believe that one superior being created the universe with the latter referring specifically to God as that creator.
The spaghetti monster theory doesn't even deserve mentioning. Darwinism, on the other hand, has evidence such as radiometric dating, fossils, evidence from gene modification and experimental evidence.
Meghan Lynch
Whitsett
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Darwinism is a theory. It should be explored and studied. Students should be exposed to many theories and taught to think and decide things for themselves. Math is a true science. One plus one equals two. This can't be debated. Theories can and should be.
Posted on December 3, 2005 7:05 AM
Carol, when intelligent design becomes a theory and has the support of a majority of scientists it will be taught in schools. But just now it is only an idea, not a theory. A theory has evidence to back it up, but ID has none.
Posted on December 3, 2005 7:48 AM
Infidel, read the previous LTE concerning the
Story of Creation by a Great Creator and ask yourself where their stories came from. They certainly didn't come from Sunday School or from Missionaies since these stories have been around long before the white man came to "christianize" these cultures. In my travels around the world, one consistant thing I have found is the story of creation in ancient civilizations and all these stories have one Great Creator as the basis of creation. I agree some have helpers involved but then if you take into consideration the story as told in Genisis , God also refers to others in his creation work. Kinda makes ya wonder , doesn't it.
Posted on December 3, 2005 8:58 AM
Mr. Produce, There are alot of stories and books and bible type books all over the world. Some of these bibles would have you become a human bomb "for the sake of the kingdom". Do you want that biblical theory printed in the biology books?
Posted on December 5, 2005 10:26 AM
Darwin and his Darwisist base their theories on many things but mostly on these four:
1. Stanley Miller's experiment in 1953
2. Darwin's Tree of Life
3. Haeckel's embryos
4. archaeopteryx missing link
All 4 of these have been repeatedly found to have so many holes (with Haeckels being a bald face lie) they cannot stand on their own nor in conjunction with one another prove anything about the origin of life. There are way too many laspes in each of these theories.
I personally believe in God and His creation being perfect but leave enough wiggle room for those that just can't go there. What I don't understand is why anyone that has studied all of what evoloutionts stand on still want this taught in our schools. If you just can't believe in God and His creation, fine, but come with something other than Darwin's theory. The fact is that it takes much more leap of faith to believe in random chance, self ordering tendencies and the like to be the link to the origin of life than to believe in God as the intelligent designer. Just look at this issue honestly with and open mind please.
Thank you.
Posted on December 5, 2005 10:50 AM