A Step in the Right Direction
The Florida Senate Education Committee has given the nod to SB2692 that would allow students and teachers to discuss the weaknesses of darwinism in the classroom without fear of punishment. The athiests are already ranting and raving that the senate is destroying science by allowing darwin’s precious theory to be questioned.
I always thought (even before I was a Christian), that if the theory wasn’t supported by the evidence, you got a new theory. This means that scientists, educators and students had to be free to expose the theory to criticism, a thing that has been virtually off limits (as far as darwinism) in this day and age.
I am not saying that we go into the schools and force biblical creation on them (I don’t know that it would do much good being taught by non-Christian teachers anyway). I don’t think they should teach origins at all in school. Origins have virtually no effect on the teaching of biology, chemistry, geology, physics, etc… anyways. Why not leave the matters of faith to the students’ Church in a tax payer supported school. I just think it would be neat if the atheist students had to willingly visit the church of darwin on sunday morning to get their dose of evolution rather than using my tax dollars to teach it as fact in school. I wonder how many of them would actually believe it then?
Here’s another novel thought. Why not eliminate socialized education and give the free market a chance to fix the horribly broken mess that public education has become. Christian schools already put public schools to shame on test scores, I wonder how it would be if we had vouchers and those evolution teaching schools had to stand up to Christian schools on a level playing field.