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It's hard to believe that we once put a man on the moon and today we have become such an anti-science culture. If we're going to insist as a society that the Bible is a science textbook, that the earth is 6000 years old, that Noah's Ark really happened, and that the Book of Revelation is the explanation for climate change, then I believe this country's best days really are behind it.
Sec. 3320.03. No school district board of education, governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, governing body of a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, or board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments. Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance, including any legitimate pedagogical concerns, and shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student's work.
OP: ready to call for the immediate and complete abolishment of compulsory education laws and public schools?
Because if not...sit there and take it. It's what you want.
If we're going to have public schools, they should teach modern science. Young-earth creationism, from an intellectual perspective, is really no different from flat-earthism. It's hard to believe it's 2019 and we still haven't moved past this yet. If parents want to shelter their kids from science and the modern world, they can send their kids to private Christian school.
If we're going to have public schools, they should teach modern science. Young-earth creationism, from an intellectual perspective, is really no different from flat-earthism. It's hard to believe it's 2019 and we still haven't moved past this yet. If parents want to shelter their kids from science and the modern world, they can send their kids to private Christian school.
If we're going to have public schools, they should teach modern science. Young-earth creationism, from an intellectual perspective, is really no different from flat-earthism. It's hard to believe it's 2019 and we still haven't moved past this yet. If parents want to shelter their kids from science and the modern world, they can send their kids to private Christian school.
I agree with your opinion, but I read through that Ohio document and did not see where it explicitly states that a student can give wrong answers based on religion. "..shall not punish or reward a student based on the religious content of the student's work." I take this to mean, for example, if a student draws an angel in art class he should not be penalized because of the religious nature of the work. But if asked in science class how the various species came to be, and the student replies with an answer from Genesis, the student should fail, but NOT because of the religious nature of his answer but because it is wrong from a scientific perspective and this is a science class.
I agree with your opinion, but I read through that Ohio document and did not see where it explicitly states that a student can give wrong answers based on religion. "..shall not punish or reward a student based on the religious content of the student's work." I take this to mean, for example, if a student draws an angel in art class he should not be penalized because of the religious nature of the work. But if asked in science class how the various species came to be, and the student replies with an answer from Genesis, the student should fail, but NOT because of the religious nature of his answer but because it is wrong from a scientific perspective and this is a science class.
That is what I'm interpreting from it, specifically it states:
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Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance
Science and religion aren't in conflict with each other. Look:
Bible: "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth..."
Science: The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago. There's tons of observational evidence to support that.
Therefore, God's days are each 2.3 billion years long. Problem solved.
Evolution is a theory. It has not been proven. It can not be the “correct” answer.
Popular misunderstanding of what the word theory means in a scientific context.
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