GreenSpot

Ah, the beauty of the scopes trial...I don't want to go there either. Anyway, nothing ignited, just think the arguments on both "sides" are a waste of time.

While I can understand where the “Clergy project” might be coming, the phrase "we urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution..." is humorous to me. While many within the scientific community would consider the modern evolutionary theory to be a sound conceptual framework I sense that the fervor in which it is perused has more philosophy derived motivators than logical/empirical ones.

At the high school level there is so much to be learned that I actually can’t fathom why more than a single day would be given to “origins theories” anyway.

Thanks for the comments, stelmodad. I guess I should have republished the letter instead of linking to it. I was hoping for more comment on the nature of the letter. I was not trying to ignite the scopes trial.
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I'm not for promoting any biological theory of origins of man, creationism or evolution in the classroom - both (from an empirical point of view) are preposterous.

Common theories of evolution should be laughed out of the classroom rather than legislated or preached out - talk about logical leaps... In the same breath, I would ask that the local biology teacher not take a stab at creationism either.

There is so much to cover and teach in the biology classroom that spending any time on vague and faith based initiatives (I include evolutional theory as a faith as well) is a waste of precious time.