sciteach

I am a physics teacher and am teaching biology against my wishes. I willteach evolution as mandated to do so by law. I will share my own personal opininion when prompted by the class.

Mageth

Well, if you "share your own personal opinion" about religion, you'll be violating federal guidelines, which prohibit such from a teacher in a public school.

Go go google and search for "teacher public school religion guidelines" and read up on it before you get yourself in trouble.

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Wyz_sub10

What are your thoughts re: the validity of theoretical physics? Why does the scientific method that works so well in physics suddenly become inadequate, in your opinion, in biology?

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MOJO-JOJO

Egads! Sounds like our "Kurt Wise" friend here needs to go back to square one to do a little studying.

<a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/ce/2/" target="_blank">sciteach101</a>

Am SO glad my kids are not in your "biology" class. I'm having a difficult enough time un-doctrinating them from the creationist crappola they get at church (mom drags them there ).


In case you're curious, your dogma makes you sound much like this " <a href="http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/dawkins_21_4.html" target="_blank">honest creationist</a>". He too, is much too headstrong to accept reality, to wit;

"... Kurt Wise—and presumably others like him who are less candid—has suffered no such physical coercion. But, as I hinted at the end of my previous column, I do wonder whether childhood indoctrination could wreak a sufficiently powerful
brainwashing effect to account for this bizarre phenomenon.

Whatever the underlying explanation, this example suggests a fascinating, if pessimistic, conclusion about human psychology. It implies that there is no sensible limit to what the human mind is capable of believing, against any amount of contrary evidence. Depending upon how many Kurt Wises are out there, it could mean that we are completely wasting our time arguing the case and presenting the evidence for evolution. We have it on the authority of a man who may well be creationism’s most highly qualified and most intelligent scientist that no evidence, no matter how overwhelming, no matter how all-embracing, no matter how devastatingly convincing, can ever make any difference. <img src="graemlins/banghead.gif" border="0" alt="[Bang Head]" /> [...sounds like sciteach]

Can you imagine believing that and at the same time accepting a salary, month after month, to teach science? Even at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee? I’m not sure that I could live with myself. And I think I would curse my God for leading me to such a pass."

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MOJO-JOJO

Do you teach that a great invisible ghost can "poof" things out of thin air, like stars, planets and people, thereby defying the laws of physics that he himself created? Is this field called 'superphysics'?.....like supernaturalism? It's just something we all have to accept as real, whether or not any evidence of it exists.

These discussions make me thank god I gave up these silly supersticious beliefs.....

Starboy

Wyz_sub10,

From my fingers to your post.

Starboy

K

MOJO-JOJO:

"Super-physics" should certainly be given equal time in the classroom. The kids should then be able to sort it out.

I also think Comic-book-phisics and Cartoon-physics are being severly shortchanged. How are kids going to find the truth unless they're given alternatives?

K

By the way, why can't my kids get a good alchemy class in the public schools? I also really wish we could get some good astrologers to teach science. It would be really great if they could share some of their stories when prompted by the students.

"sciteach" is definitely false advertising.

Starboy

Would that mean the kids would get to watch roadrunner cartoons? If you don't intend to educate them might as well entertain them.

The Christians are such a swell bunch of people and a great asset to our society - NOT!

Starboy

sciteach

The laws of physics break down during the first microseconds of the Big Bang. Are you implying that mean the beginning of the Universe is unscientific too??