on: teaching evolution vs christianity

Every year there is always this debate about whether or not evolution should be taught in public schools. The private schools get all up in arms about evolution being taught, but public schools never get bent out of shape that creation gets taught.....?

I think this is about ego. No one has the balls to get up and say, "Hey, you know what, neither one of us knows how in the hell we got here for sure." Is it too much to ask of our teachers to say, there are two widely held theories about the beginning of time, here they are.

Would our children not learn that it's okay to "not know" the answer sometimes. Couldn't they see that we are human just like they are and maybe they would be able to see that we are human just like they are. Instead, we have to be perceived as the all-knowing adults who end up banging our heads together in an argument that can only end with "I know you are, but what am I".

It all comes down to faith and beliefs (and science depending on who you ask), but the best thing we could teach our children is that there are alternative points of views other than ours and we all co-exist with one another despite our differences. These differences can create healthy debate and discussion, but it's a shame that G-dubs 'big-bad texan-american-with-us-or-with-the terrorists' rhetoric is taking hold of the rest of the country.

Kids aren't stupid, we knew when we were getting duped as a child... for example, I knew that whole noah's ark thing was some bullshit because there is no way that ardvarks, polar bears, and camels all co-exist in the same micro-climate that happened to be the loading point for the ark. I was like, c'mon playa, you expect me to believe that EVERY animal in the universe got a male and female on that boat and they just peacefully co-existed through Hurricane Jesus???

GTFOOHWTBS!!

~C

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