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This kind of rubbish coming to Ireland

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    #62
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Flamed Diving wrote: »
    Right, schoolchildren.



    Ok, so if both sides are presented, why not more? Flying Spaghetti Monsterism? If not, why? Also, you don't see the danger in presenting evolution/ID side-by-side?

    Well I don't have a problem letting 12 year olds decide if it's done properly./

    And ffs I never said that side by side part. Read the post. There's evidence for evolution so that can go in biology. My brother's doing leaving cert religion at the moment and he learns about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, budhism etc, don't see the problem with throwing ID in there too.


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    #63
    Flamed Diving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,609 ✭✭✭Flamed Diving


    Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »
    Well I don't have a problem letting 12 year olds decide if it's done properly./

    And ffs I never said that side by side part. Read the post. There's evidence for evolution so that can go in biology. My brother's doing leaving cert religion at the moment and he learns about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, budhism etc, don't see the problem with throwing ID in there too.

    Ah, I thought you meant in science class. Although I do have a problem with children being taught to decide on blind faith rather than evidence. I happen to believe that the best way to train a young mind is to teach him/her to have healthy skeptical/critical skills.


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    #64
    dr.bollocko
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    There is a very valid reason for not teaching impressionable minds about ID. That is because evolution is a rational theory. ID is a cobbled together pile of nonsense. Grown adults struggle to cope with this fact. Why should we burden school children? Religion has no place whatsoever in the classroom at all. Let alone it's associated nonsenses.


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    #65
    Zombrex
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    Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »
    My brother's doing leaving cert religion at the moment and he learns about Christianity, Judaism, Islam, budhism etc, don't see the problem with throwing ID in there too.

    Ohh, the ID crowd would not like that, the insist it is not religion :pac:


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    #66
    Galvasean
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    Wicknight wrote: »
    Ohh, the ID crowd would not like that, the insist it is not religion :pac:

    And that is the defining point. The ID crowd want it taught as legitimate scientific theory. Of course it does not belong in the science class because it has no scientific merit.


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