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Again,how much time do you have?

---Without having to go too indepth behind them or their
reasoning.---

Are you just going to give the students a list of the thousands
and thousands of creation myths mankind has invented? If you
briefly discuss each one, there goes your whole semester, and
you end up having taught a mythology class, not a scientific one.

Teaching science using a historical approach is a great way to do
it--show the individuals who made the breakthroughs and talk
about how they did it, leading up to current knowledge.

But to spend much time on disproven theories, or worse, ideas
that have no scientific basis, is doing the students a disservice.

---Now, back to why we accept something differently.
Just because my history teacher told me about pre-history and
went into a 20 minute speel about why he doesn't believe in that
doesn't mean that I won't accept pre-history. Infact for me, I
believed quite the opposite because of my teenage rebellious
nature. Where I would find fault is if this option wasn't even
presented. ---

Clearly your science teacher wasn't doing his job. His job was to
teach you science, not to try to convince you that science is
wrong. And again, if you have to present every possible option
to a student, you will waste a huge amount of time (personally I
believe in the TV show, "Land of the Lost", so that must be
taught just like Creationism). Where do you draw the line?

Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 09/28/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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