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

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Though I'm a Christian I must agree that teaching evolution in the schools is both senseless and a bad precedent for society to have set. Creationism is one of those things that I just do not understand. Taken at its own word it creates a scenario where God is Evil.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

In a round about way you recommended me a movie! Or had a part in it.

Being dawin day, you posted about 'the god of the gaps', which off the cuff had me websearch 'a wizard did it' which took me to 'tvtropes.com', as normal on tv tropes, I went from 'a wizard did it' to 'fridge logic' to 'tomato surprise', at which point I came across the movie 'Lo'

Which I now need to see.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047490/

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

Gee, isn't it fascinating how the one single topic which tends to get people so worked up is religion? It seems to touch some cord in them and they're suddenly willing to go to tremendous lengths to prove the other side wrong. Fun to watch.