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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The law isn't discriminatory. It doesn't say only Christians can opt out of evolution and sex ed classes: Anybody can.
You are grasping at straws here.
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Honestly, I have no idea why you are so deliberately perverse on these issues, but for you to say that photon is "grasping at straws" is utterly laughable. Photon has showed remarkable restraint; but he's also utterly clobbering you.
Photon has, once again, attempted to very patiently explain the basis on which this debate
must take place, which is very simple:
a correct understanding of what evolution is. I know for a fact that you're smart. I have no idea why you're incapable of understanding
this. I can only conclude that you don't want to.
And your main problem in this debate stems from this one blind spot that you clearly possess. As a result you have refused to respond in kind to a single one of photon's posts, refused to answer any of his questions and refused to even work within the very narrow definitions of what science does and what evolutionary theory is in the real world. These aren't imaginary terms that can mean whatever you want. Until you understand evolution correctly, there's no point whatsoever in debating its scientific merits with you.
But in any case, this isn't even about the scientific merits of evolution, as you've made very clear by making this an argument about parental rights. What this means, of course is that you are demanding "special rights" for certain groups of parents by having their right to pull their child from the classroom in certain circumstances enshrined in law.
Your response to the inevitable question "why not other groups" is to insist that those other groups don't exist. Which is nonsense anyway, but even if it weren't that isn't the point. What photon's examples illustrate is that subjects are interrelated, and all of them are important. Another way to say that is this: you can't teach by
subtraction of knowledge.
You might object to something children learn in school--but children's lives are never enriched by
not learning something.
The fact is, parents aren't the stakeholder here anyway:
our children are. The fact that you feel differently seriously frightens me. As does your feeling that somehow a child's life could be enriched by ignorance. Leave science to the people who are qualified to teach it.
I'm done ranting, but I'll add this thought: as a parent, I find the notion that
only parents know what is best for children in school
appalling. I very much hope that my daughter will learn a million things in school that I never would have thought to teach her. If I didn't think that would happen, I'd never send her there in the first place.