Teach the controversy, uh-huh

[mahnmut]

People's willful attempts to keep themselves ignorant has never stopped boggling me.

Automatically filling the blank spots that still remain here and there in our knowledge about many things - with a deity of some sorts - reminds me of the fairy tales we often tell our very young kids whenever they ask "daddy, where did I come from?" Then we start talking about bees and birds and everything is all right. Funny, many people choose to remain in eternal childhood forever. It would've remained just funny-full-stop, unless entire groups of those eventually started pushing their ignorant agenda onto the rest of society and turn this into a political issue, now that's where things turn ugly.

Teach the controversy is a nice way to move the goalposts of free speech into a slippery area. By the same logic, why not teach Astrology in class? Many people trust it, don't they?

Comments

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

The problem is that there are as many ways to read the Bible as the number of people there are. It's something like the Nostradamus prophecies. All sorts of interpretations. And fundies who read the Gospel literally 1:1 are just one part of the myriad of ways to read it. I don't see why one group among all should be given unfair advantage over the rest.

[prader.livejournal.com]

There is only one correct way. The problem is that I'm not absolutely certain the way I'm doing so is it. I am fairly sure the strictly literal way is not it either, though.