Evolution and ideology in schools

mspearl
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:14:56 +0000

My youngest daughter, a hs sophomore, has been getting into routine lunch time arguments over whether dinosaurs existed. The girl she is arguing with is conservative and religious (i know shocker). What really terrifies me is that this girl gets good grades, she has a bright mind yet refuses to accept that dinosaurs existed and believes that scientists are in on a big “hoax.” She also firmly believes the world is only several thousand years old.

On the bright side, she is in the minority - even at our rural conservative high school this isn’t standard thinking. Yet.