New Education Secretary: Will it make a difference?

musicprnt
Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:26:38 +0000

@romanigypsyeyes :
I have seen polls that indicate something like 60% of Americans don’t think evolution is settled science or is a ‘belief’. I think, though, that if you looked closely at that, you would find a significant percentage who believe in evolution, but don’t believe in random evolution through natural selection where random mutations allow one organism to survive better and so forth. I know people who believe evolution is true, but don’t believe in random evolution (for example, they argue, not illogically, that if you look at the history of life on earth, events like the asteroid that caused the formation of the moon (and our liquid iron core with its magnetic fields) that hit earth (which if it didn’t happen, life would not have come about due to radiation preventing life), or the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs finally, or even something like the Golden ratio that if it wasn’t the basis for things, would mean life is impossible and argue that is God’s hand or whatnot…but anyway, they would be in the mix of ‘nonbelievers’ depending on how the polls are done.

Would there be pushback? Yeah, but likely it would be from the so called Blue States who are unlikely to ever want to teach intelligent design as science, but the red states? Given that these tend to be the most religious conservative states in the country, I doubt they would push back, the teachers likely wouldn’t be happy but the school boards? Anyone remember when Kansas statewide banned the teaching of evolution?