What to teach in schools (What should be taught in schools?)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 21, 2012, 02:08 (4295 days ago) @ dhw

As a non-scientist, I can only accept the scientific consensus on certain matters, such as the age of our Earth and the process whereby all forms of life are descended from other forms, and so like her I reject Creationism. Science has provided enough evidence to convince me. But science has not provided ANY evidence for the ability of chance to generate the unfathomable complexities of life and consciousness. -I've been at Loch Ness. It is a large lake but we did not see Nessie that day. A form of creationism I can accept is Theistic Evolution. It fits the science and accepts your point that chance can't work.- 
> For believers like David, Creationism is unacceptable precisely because it goes against current scientific knowledge; but intelligent design as such does not, and it is emphatically NOT an alternative to the theory of evolution. You can believe in the latter but also believe that chance is incapable of assembling the mechanisms necessary for its origin and its development, and therefore that those mechanisms have been designed. Science doesn't come into it. What should be taught in science lessons? The theory of evolution, including the fact that there is no scientific consensus on some aspects of it. What should not be taught in science lessons? -What should be taught in high school is that there was an evolutionary process, but we still don't know exactly how it worked, and Darwin's theory is only one of several contestants, based on the newer science. But I accept my form of creationism as stated above.