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yes, the theory of evolution should be taught in public schools...our scientist... "people having expert knowledge of one or more sciences...dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged & showing the operation of general laws"... have studied for years skulls that have been found around the world, the oldest i believe to be around a million years old...in that length of time not only human evolution but animal and plant evolution as well has taken place...it's a matter of science.....our children have every right to this knowledge in order to open doors of the mind that would be inaccessible otherwise.....

There is no reason why Evolution shouldn't be taught in schools. It should be stressed that most of it is "Just a Theory". Evolution is as much a science as Astronomy, biology, physics, etc. Not everything is etched in stone, and it's theories like this, taught in schools, that help our children to think "Outside of the Box".
A long time ago, we thought the earth was flat, it was the center of the universe, the moon was made of Cheese and there were canals on Mars.
We need to let our children have critical thinking skills, not skills believed because a book or Mom and Dad said so.

I've been thinking about this and my answer is a firm, NO.
It is obvious that the whole school curriculum be revamped.
Our schools are no longer educating but are becoming Correctional institutions with a slant on learning.
Here's a great example (And still approved by the FDA).
http://www.fda.gov/Fdac/features/995_snakes.html
My daughter said she took first aid in school and learned about snake bites, including sucking the venom out. Hello!!!!
1. Venom is injected into the muscles and veins, far to deep to suck out.
2. Now since you have the venom in your mouth, your poisoned to (if you get any out).
(They also taught her we won the war of 1812)

Proper English isn't even being taught. You can't go through the drive through at McDonalds without thinking for a moment, they outsourced to.

This "No child Left behind" law needs to be abolished. For two reasons.
1. We have to lower the bar so everyone can graduate. Now we have to dumb the smart ones down.
2. We are giving schools to write a blank check to let everyone slip through the cracks.

Every child deserves an education. Every Child that has special needs, need to have classes geared to help them out to the best of there abilities.
The little idiots that don't want to learn and disrupt others from learning need to be kicked to the curb. They don't want to learn, there not going to learn, no sense keeping them in schools. Throw them out, then if the parents want them to learn they can pay for private schooling so there not stomping on kids rights who want to learn.

So at this time, no it shouldn't be taught as there is way to much of a debate. But we need to revamp our schools to train our children for the real world.

Give this man an award or something!!  :D

 

kindagreywolf:

I've been thinking about this and my answer is a firm, NO. It is obvious that the whole school curriculum be revamped. Our schools are no longer educating but are becoming Correctional institutions with a slant on learning. Here's a great example (And still approved by the FDA). http://www.fda.gov/Fdac/features/995_snakes.html My daughter said she took first aid in school and learned about snake bites, including sucking the venom out. Hello!!!! 1. Venom is injected into the muscles and veins, far to deep to suck out. 2. Now since you have the venom in your mouth, your poisoned to (if you get any out). (They also taught her we won the war of 1812) Proper English isn't even being taught. You can't go through the drive through at McDonalds without thinking for a moment, they outsourced to. This "No child Left behind" law needs to be abolished. For two reasons. 1. We have to lower the bar so everyone can graduate. Now we have to dumb the smart ones down. 2. We are giving schools to write a blank check to let everyone slip through the cracks. Every child deserves an education. Every Child that has special needs, need to have classes geared to help them out to the best of there abilities. The little idiots that don't want to learn and disrupt others from learning need to be kicked to the curb. They don't want to learn, there not going to learn, no sense keeping them in schools. Throw them out, then if the parents want them to learn they can pay for private schooling so there not stomping on kids rights who want to learn. So at this time, no it shouldn't be taught as there is way to much of a debate. But we need to revamp our schools to train our children for the real world.

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jd4fox23

jd4fox23:

Give this man an award or something!!  :D

Thanks JD. However if they use this, please correct the spelling and grammatical errors. Also, let them know I wrote this at 4:30 am in the morning because I couldn't sleep. I don't want them thinking I have to go back to school or anything.

kindagreywolf:

jd4fox23:

Give this man an award or something!!  :D

Thanks JD. However if they use this, please correct the spelling and grammatical errors. Also, let them know I wrote this at 4:30 am in the morning because I couldn't sleep. I don't want them thinking I have to go back to school or anything.

Typos and sparce punctuation is part of netiquette, right?

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jd4fox23

jd4fox23:

Typos and sparce punctuation is part of netiquette, right?

LOL! true, but tv viewers might not know that.

yes i do think so. school is not church. we send are children to school to learn fact based issues. why is this so hard for everyone to grasp. science shows us that things have an origin. from the smallest island in the ocean that was created from a volcanic magma deep under the ocean. that evolves into an island which eventually evolves to harvest micro-organisms{life}. everything changes or evolves depending on its enviroments. thats just the facts. and that is what i want my children to learn. what we KNOW for a fact to be true. it seems pretty obvious, logically and scientificly, that we have evolved. both physically and mentally. things just change. watching and documenting it over time has proven this to be true. i think sometimes well,most of the time man makes the answer more difficult than the question. then we confuse{or mix} facts and beliefs. then our children are just confused. simply facts are facts. beliefs are beliefs. seperate subjects intirely. if i want my child to learn of a god i will send them to a private school to learn of such things. but public education should just simply stick to the facts. educate  are children, prepare them for the real world.

allisonck:

yes i do think so. school is not church. we send are children to school to learn fact based issues. why is this so hard for everyone to grasp. science shows us that things have an origin. from the smallest island in the ocean that was created from a volcanic magma deep under the ocean. that evolves into an island which eventually evolves to harvest micro-organisms{life}. everything changes or evolves depending on its enviroments. thats just the facts. and that is what i want my children to learn. what we KNOW for a fact to be true. it seems pretty obvious, logically and scientificly, that we have evolved. both physically and mentally. things just change. watching and documenting it over time has proven this to be true. i think sometimes well,most of the time man makes the answer more difficult than the question. then we confuse{or mix} facts and beliefs. then our children are just confused. simply facts are facts. beliefs are beliefs. seperate subjects intirely. if i want my child to learn of a god i will send them to a private school to learn of such things. but public education should just simply stick to the facts. educate  are children, prepare them for the real world.

Alot of science isn't based on fact.  It is based on educated guesses and theories.  Scientists can only summize how things began and evolved thousands of years ago.  We don't know for a fact anything past what has been witnessed...  It would be nice if it were as simple as you say..."facts are facts and beliefs are beliefs"... but it isn't that simple.  Can anyone prove that it is a fact that the earth is millions of years old? No.. they can't.  It is a belief based on accepted methods of scientific dating.  Some would say it is a belief that a God exists, but others would say it is a fact because of their own personal experiences.  As long as science is part of a public education, we won't be just teaching our kids "facts".  How do we prepare our kids for the real world, then?  I think everyone would have a different perspective on that question, for sure.  :)

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jd4fox23

ok where do we draw the line on that one? do we know that dinosaurs walked the earth at one time or is that belief. i mean they have bones from them. is that a belief or fact.we used to think the world was flat. do we know now that it is round do we have facts proving it is or do we just believe it is round?  or physics, someone teaches those numbers to be fact. we can't go up to a physics teacher and say i don't believe that to be true. i could go on. but thats just  to much controversy.come on some things we just know to be true if not teach it as theory. why can't it just be simple? because we have created it to be to difficult. maybe the question shouldn't  be should we teach evolution in schools, but rather should it be taught that humans evolved?  is it ok to teach that  plants and or animals evolved, but humans can't or didn't? where do we draw the line.some know things have evolved and some believe things have evolved. it's just tricky i think we should maybe have more open discussions about it with the children. thet them form their own opinion on it. if we teach in this manner we open our childrens minds to different possibilities. while we show them that their thoughts,opinions,and feelings matter. this is how things are discovered. encourage free thinking. there is so much out there for our children. lets just show it to them. and then see what they do with it. who knows what they will find.

allisonck:

ok where do we draw the line on that one? do we know that dinosaurs walked the earth at one time or is that belief. i mean they have bones from them. is that a belief or fact.we used to think the world was flat. do we know now that it is round do we have facts proving it is or do we just believe it is round?  or physics, someone teaches those numbers to be fact. we can't go up to a physics teacher and say i don't believe that to be true. i could go on. but thats just  to much controversy.come on some things we just know to be true if not teach it as theory. why can't it just be simple? because we have created it to be to difficult. maybe the question shouldn't  be should we teach evolution in schools, but rather should it be taught that humans evolved?  is it ok to teach that  plants and or animals evolved, but humans can't or didn't? where do we draw the line.some know things have evolved and some believe things have evolved. it's just tricky i think we should maybe have more open discussions about it with the children. thet them form their own opinion on it. if we teach in this manner we open our childrens minds to different possibilities. while we show them that their thoughts,opinions,and feelings matter. this is how things are discovered. encourage free thinking. there is so much out there for our children. lets just show it to them. and then see what they do with it. who knows what they will find.

While we encourage all the free thinking, why not allow the same free thinking and teaching to involved a belief in God?

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jd4fox23

well my opinion on that is that i appreciate religion as knowledge. and think its great to learn about but there isn't enough time in the day to teach our kids on every religion or god. therefore i think  that should be left to college courses. or free time we have. still the question remains is this about evolution of all things or just the evolution of humans

allisonck:

...educate  are children, prepare them for the real world.

Boy, they are sure missing the boat on that point.

Actually, your question was "Should the schools teach the Theory of Evolution"?  You made no mention of seclusion to any species.  And I believe there are several "theories" or "beliefs" as to the topic of evolution.

If you truly desire open learning and discussion, free-thinking, etc., you must include all schools of thought...not just those that you aspire to.

As far as religion goes, you could break the curriculum down to study several of the world's great religious theologies:  Muslim, Judaism, Catholic and Protestant.