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=> My Take: The case for including ethics, religion in science class

My Take: The case for including ethics, religion in science class
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, December 16 2011, 6:35:48 (UTC)
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...here they come again. Now we are to believe that teaching religion in science class enhances the learning experience. In the first place it's wrong to lump ethics in with religion....religions don't have ethics...they have dogma, that's a very different thing. It doesn't hurt at all to teach ethics in science class...in fact the person writing this article must know that...hell, there are already demands that this be the case...there are university courses in ethics. This is not something new or controversial....but teaching religion in a science course is the old argument all over again...religion has no place in a science class. The only way religion can be taught legitimately, and not as propaganda, is in a history or survey of religion class....as something to be studied because it is a part of human history...the way the history of witch burning is a part of our existence...but we don;t teach people the value of burning witches...or believing that there are such things.

...how would you incorporate religious beliefs in a science class? How...by including the study of alchemy in a chemistry class....."okay kids, set aside your astronomy textbooks and now open your astrology reader?

...this is a creationism end-run. Now they want to "include" religion in an evolution class...since they failed to get rid of the evolution class...and are not content with being able to teach their voodoo religions in their own churches...no, they must enter science departments and teach "religion"....oh yes, and "ethics".



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