Oh, I get it, so Obama is exactly the kind of liberal scum I've anticipated, working overtime to destroy religion and turn the world against anyone who might question the unfeeling machine that is science, further enforcing evolution as being the ONLY unimpeachable answer there is. Not even allowing alternate theories to exist in a system and educational system that SUPPOSEDLY promotes free inquiry. In short, being no less closed-minded to alternate ideals today than the Catholics were to the ideas of Galileo half a millennium ago.
And so we trade one sort of tyrant for another sort of tyrant. I knew I could see a dark purpose lurking behind the popularity that is Obama's regime...
Erm, Obama's a devout Christian. Science does not equal "DIE RELIGION!". He' just saying he is going to be more open to scientific pursuits instead of letting religious ideals adding on unnecessary weight.
Keep in mind I said "religious ideals" and not "moral ideals". Big difference there.
Edit: Oh snap did not see that there. I love Evolution v.s Intelligent Design discussions!
@ J-Dude: Please calm down. I don not think Sub has under lying feelings like that. And when he said "wrong", he meant you were wrong on what Obama wants, not about your beliefs in general
I respect your idea of wanting a looser restrictions of ideology, but you have to consider that school is meant to provide facts.
Evolution IS only a theory. But schools teach it because there are studies, evidence, and observations done. They do NOT tell the students "This is where the world came from and that's all". They are essentially showing how organisms form over time and how that
could be a link to our world and billions of years ago.
Teaching Intelligent Design is basically saying "Hey man, there could always be a higher power. You don't know" which is honestly
ridiculous to be taught in schools. Schools are supposed to tell us what we DO know, not make assumptions for stuff we DON'T know. Evolution attempts to put pieces together (keyword: attempts), while ID doesn't have any puzzle pieces
Honestly, if schools could say that since we do not know so much, there could be a higher power, there should be
absolutely no reason that we could say the entire world is the Matrix.
What I just said was not being condescending or comparing religion to fiction. Please don't you dare think that. What I am saying is if such a broad and vague idea could be taught in schools, the Matrix should theoretically be a possibility.
You are right about not having to push thoughts as "absolute truths" when they are not that concrete. I agree with you that there is potentially just so much we do not know that not everything has an answer in these times. But it sounds like you are suggesting that instead of providing bits and pieces we
do know and letting the student fill in the blanks to whatever he wishes, that the the lesson will assume that the things we do not know were by a higher being.
And do you not contradict yourself by saying you want Christianity to be taught in schools, while encouraging a broad range of possibilities? Basically, teaching Christianity would say "Jesus is your only savior and God made everything". Now
that's an absolute truth. Would that mean Islam, among other religions, is the wrong answer?
About Obama.
Remember that he said expanding on the "known world", which means using what we already hold as fact and discovering more with it, which would avoid more distant subjects like "is there a God?"