Comments on: So who’s going to stop them? http://www.texasedspectator.com/2008/01/23/so-whos-going-to-stop-them/ Comments on the state of education in Texas Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:53:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Barry_ http://www.texasedspectator.com/2008/01/23/so-whos-going-to-stop-them/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Barry_ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:05:56 +0000 http://www.texasedspectator.com/2008/01/23/so-whos-going-to-stop-them/#comment-509 The only thing that can stop them is people with closed minds that want to teach evolution and origins as a dogma. What could be more boring than to act as though all the tough questions have been solved. It has always amazed me that evolution is the only theory that needs laws to protect it from criticism. A scientific theory must be looked at critically and from all sides. If discussing evidence that would seem to disconfirm the theory makes it 'appear a travesty of unscientific reasoning', that is not the fault of the evidence. And it is not the fault of the students who many would want to insulate from any such evidence. The theory must stand or fall on the evidence. All of it. If we can't tell them the whole story, we shouldn't tell them anything, and nobody wants that. Selectively teaching only the supportive evidence isn't teaching, it's indoctrination. Students love a good controversy and bright intellectual minds want to search for answers to tough problems. If we ignore the problems and the controversy, we do these young people a disservice. Let's tell them the truth. The only thing that can stop them is people with closed minds that want to teach evolution and origins as a dogma. What could be more boring than to act as though all the tough questions have been solved.

It has always amazed me that evolution is the only theory that needs laws to protect it from criticism.

A scientific theory must be looked at critically and from all sides. If discussing evidence that would seem to disconfirm the theory makes it ‘appear a travesty of unscientific reasoning’, that is not the fault of the evidence. And it is not the fault of the students who many would want to insulate from any such evidence.

The theory must stand or fall on the evidence. All of it.

If we can’t tell them the whole story, we shouldn’t tell them anything, and nobody wants that. Selectively teaching only the supportive evidence isn’t teaching, it’s indoctrination.

Students love a good controversy and bright intellectual minds want to search for answers to tough problems. If we ignore the problems and the controversy, we do these young people a disservice. Let’s tell them the truth.

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