The Sagga Continues

So I was surfing the net and jumped on Relevant Magazine's website where I read an article on CNN about a recent case about putting stickers in textbooks that read something to the effect of: "this book contains material on evolution which is a theory not a fact." I see no harm there but obviously, someone did because the judge ruled that it was unconstitutional. bull crap. Last time I checked, evolution had not been proven. The judge claimed that it violated separation of church and state. "Due to the manner in which the sticker refers to evolution as a theory, the sticker also has the effect of undermining evolution education to the benefit of those Cobb County citizens who would prefer that students maintain their religious beliefs regarding the origin of life," Cooper wrote in his ruling. (http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/index.html) Parents wanted the stickers put on there because the book mentioned evolution but didn't mention any rivaling theories about the origins of life.

Education is meant to inform and to fully inform students, I need to teach all aspects of any subject or issue. That means teaching evolution, big bang, micro and macroevolution, and intelligent design. I CANNOT mention God in my class but I can talk about the research and more importantly, the results of that research and whether it supports or disproves any of the theories. None of these are completely proven. I don't think those stickers gave any inclination of a God or that evolution was wrong, but just that it is a theory, not a fact. In fact, there are very few concrete FACTS in science. There are a lot of laws and theories. Students need to be educated and not ignorant to any ideas or theories. At the high school age, they also need to learn to decide what they believe on their own.

If I ever get told I cannot teach all aspects to this issue at a school, I'm outta there. I don't think teaching one side is education at all.......it's allowing ignorance to seep into the classroom.