Also Presented Without Comment of the Day: All 51 Miss USA delegates respond to the question “should evolution be taught in schools.”
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Rediscovered this in my liked posts the other day and here’s what I have to say: (SPOILER ALERT: prepare for a rant)
1. Miss Wisconsin… “only because it’s a great subject to touch base on”? What? I are disappoint.
2. Miss Indiana, you are why no one wants to be a Hoosier.
3. Miss Kentucky, yes, let’s not stimulate the minds of our children and give them controversial topics to think on because it will only scare them and probably won’t suddenly open some door in their mind where, hey, they decided that this is a really intriguing subject that I would love to do more research on and really figure out things for myself. No, that scares the shit out of our youth. That’s worse than…I can’t even say. Oh, and by the way, scientists are pretty in agreement on evolution, so I don’t know what you’re talking about.
4. Miss Minnesota, you have successfully redeemed your state a bit in my eyes. Congratulations. (We still got yo axe, though :) )
AND I’M SO SICK OF WHEN PEOPLE POINT OUT THAT EVOLUTION IS A THEORY. Theory means something different in science than in everyday speech, you ignorant twats. Theory, in science, is a well-substantiated, well-support, well-documented explanation for our observations. In other words, IT’s BASED ON FACTS PEOPLE. I’m sorry, but what facts can you give to prove Creationism?
I’ll admit, I’m biased. As a genetics major and just overall science enthusiasts, I support the theory of evolution. I don’t believe that it’s completely concrete, but honestly, not everything is science is. We’re still figuring everything out, and we always will be until the end of time. That’s how complicated we are. Why do you think there are so many branches of science? To figure all this shit out!
I’m Christian as well, going against the belief that you can’t be a scientist and Christian. I may not have the strongest beliefs in God, I have my doubts, but I do like to think at times that there is a greater force, and while not all prayers get answered, it’s nice to know there’s always someone to listen to you. There’s a sort of comfort in that. Long story short, I have no problem with religion, and I completely agree children should be exposed to multiple sides of the argument. That’s the job of the parents (another topic of discussion: the fact that being a parent IS A JOB, which is seems so many parents these days seem to forget), they’re supposed to instill some sort of base in kids that they can either accept or later refute, even if it is a non-religious one, you know? The thing is, if you were to introduce the religious side of the argument in the schools, would you respect all religions? Or, when you say the “other side of the story,” do you just mean the Christian side? What are the Greek and Roman beliefs of Creation that are already being taught as part of mythology courses? Do you just consider those silly stories and that’s why you’re not afraid of them? To the Greeks and Romans, those “stories” meant as much to them as the “story” of Biblical Creation means to Christians today, but I don’t believe that Christians really get that and respect it. Yes, the original Greeks and Romans of those times aren’t around today, but you can’t disrespect them. They’re the ancestors of a lot of people today, and you don’t disrespect the ancestors of anyone. And what about Muslims? Hindus (…I did use the correct term, right? I couldn’t remember…)? All other non-Christian religions, would they get represented? Probably not, because this is America after all. That’s the only problem I run into with religion being introduced into public schools, because there would be so much misrepresentation. And by public schools, I mean secondary and below. College doesn’t count, because that opens up a whole new world and plenty of Religious Studies programs.
The worst thing about this whole debate is the fact that America is SO BEHIND the rest of the world. Though I haven’t done my research and cannot fully support this following statement, it doesn’t seem like the rest of the world is in as much of an uproar about this as we are. And while we’re arguing, we’re falling behind. Look at our kids’ math and science scores. You know, our scores overall, really, in comparison to the rest of the world. For being such a great country, we sure aren’t really proving ourselves to be so. This is why we need to teach SCIENCE and FACTS so our kids can stand up to the rest of the world. They can do whatever they want and study whatever they want once they get to college, just get them to college first (you know, besides all the debt and rablerablerable…)
…No one’s going to read this but I don’t care. This was a nice needed break from studying for my Genetics 466 exam.
