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 Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:10 pm
I thought this topic might be appropriate, as Hermes is the god of learning and literature.
Okay, so I may be a bit of a grudge holder, or I might be on to something. Maybe both. Anyway, in my eighth grade literature class, we were about to read the novel Lord of the Flies (an excellent novel, by the way). To get us into the story, and to introduce us to the theme that evil is innate in man, our literature teacher started to explain evil and goodness. Then, the introduction just went downhill from there.
Somehow, he got to the topic of how evolutionists have been wrong this whole time. His main point? That the Piltdown man was a fake. He didn't outright say the name, just that "they (scientists, evolutionists) said that they found the missing link, when it was really a bunch of monkey bones put together; they found a dog's tooth and said it belonged to the link." He also mentioned how science "thinks it has all the answers" and how it's often "wrong."
I know this was awhile ago, but I'm sure as heck that this still happens in schools all over. Is this sort of rambling appropriate for a literature class, with the main point being the evil innate in man? Or was his rant uncalled for? If your child came home from school to tell you that this happened, how would you feel? What would you do or say?
I, personally, wanted to raise my hand and shoot down every point (especially the fact that the Piltdown man was found as a hoax many years ago, and has since been rejected by the scientific community). But I held my tongue. mad
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:05 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:32 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:41 am
I'm a Pastafarian, sooo, there's my stand on Intelligent Design.
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