My science teacher is kinda stupid.
- Thread starter trollax
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Hmm yes, Evolution is a big religious scam...created by a man who used his discovery to prove to himself that there is a God, Charles Darwin wrote at the end of the book (HEAVILY paraphrasing here) "what a wonder it is that our God would have the foresight to give creatures the ability to change and adapt to their surroundings."
While, of course, anyone who really looks at the evidence can only come to the conclusion that the Earth is MUCH older than 6000 years and that man never lived with the dinosaurs or that there has been a vast cosmic conspiracy to make us believe so I would argue against this 'proof'. In fact it is extremely difficult to prove anything beyond personal experience much less anything that predates human history and humanity itself, the assumptions of Carbon Dating not withstanding. For one it assumes that everything started with the same levels or radiation and that our interpretations of the information is correct, and since the processes is unreliable for the span human history all we have his highly educated, well supported, and very likely guesses.acosn said:
If she preaches to you about what her beliefs are rather than what the curriculum or general proven science states then it's a problem if not suck it up and ignore her ignorance 
Take great solace in knowing that I truly mean it when I say "lol, Americans"
I assume you're american because only in the "great" U.S. or A and of course few third world countries will someone like that be classified as a Science teacher and not batship retarded.
I assume you're american because only in the "great" U.S. or A and of course few third world countries will someone like that be classified as a Science teacher and not batship retarded.
The fact that you know her beliefs at all says that she has failed as a teacher. Personal beliefs on controversial subjects shouldn't even be known by students if the teacher does their job right. My government teacher in high school is apparently a pretty hard-core republican, but no one in his class had any idea this was the case until he became the supervisor of the Young Republicans at our school. He kept his beliefs to himself and taught objectively and factually. My final paper for the class was a position paper on why gay marriage should be legally recognized, and he gave me an A because he thought it was well-written and convincing, despite his views on the subject. THAT is an example of someone keeping their beliefs out of the classroom, like a damn professional. Your teacher sounds like she should be a full-time campaigner for Michelle Bachman instead of pushing her beliefs on her students.
stupidest comments I have ever heard...period, except for the Cracked joke that Abortion is a government myth created by "the corporations" but that was intentionally stupid
The crazy thing is that evolution HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN. Its still only a theory because to prove it would mean to either find definitive proof that humans evolved from apes or to be able to observe an ape evolve into man. Neither of which we have found. Yes we have found things that substantiate the claim of evolution but there is still no 100% proof that what we found are actually ancestors of humans or a completely different species that has died out.Abandon4093 said:
*edit* Oh yeah Creationism is more widely believed than evolution in the United States.
If she is teaching that to her students, and pushing her beliefs onto them, then she could definatly be fired. If she's not doing that, then she's in the green, though prolly shouldn't be teaching science.
If you really want to do something, & do something that may really make a difference, I'd call the ACLU group for your state and ask for advice. I was going to suggest that you tape your teacher saying these things, but that may be against the law in your state. Call them, if you can get them to send a warning letter to the school, that may actually make a difference. It's been six years since Kitzmiller v Dover [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District]. You shouldn't have to put up with this.
You unpartriotic scum! I live in Kansas and I call bull on your view of Kansas. Where exactly do you live? Northeast, Missori Border, West, or Southeast, because I can only speak for the Northeast, but that doesnt sound like the Kansas I know unless you are talking about the EXTREME fanatics like Fred Phelps and his lot, but they are the exception, not the rule.trollax said:
People can have whatever beliefs they want, legally, I doubt it's even an option for them to refuse employment on those grounds, often not even legal to ask (here, at least).Abandon4093 said:
All that she has to be able to due is convey the course material to her students, her opinion on it is irrelevant.
Unfortunately, at the very least that doesn't likely make for a more effective learning environment than simply reading the textbook, and the lack of credibility holding such beliefs gives a person doesn't support being an effective educator either. Also possible, and light supported by the fact that her students even know about her beliefs in the first place, is that she can't present the course material in an unbiased fashion.
In any case, also entirely possible that she teachers the material perfectly well and her personal belief that commonly accepted information is nonsense has no impact on that.
Ugh. This woman should NOT be teaching science. I don't care if she's teaching electronics or something else unrelated to evolution; she's surely proved that she has no capacity for sceptical and rational though or regard for evidence and so isn't a scientist in any true sense of the world.trollax said:
You wouldn't want a member of the Flat Earth Society teaching your child Geography, and I wouldn't want a Creationist teaching me or my hypothetical children science.
Sounds... kinda delicious, actually.TheDarkEricDraven said:
But that isn't true, it has been proven with overwhelming evidence, the only thing that is still a theory about it is the mechanics behind it, but it is a fact that it happens, I urge you to research it more thoroughly, but in the meantime read this http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html which cites multiple sources (for added measure here is every single source they use in the entire website: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/ackbib.html#refs), and comes from the body website http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-qa.html which answers many other evolutionary criticisms using sources, as for your point on what humans have evolved from, I don't see how which creature we evolved from impacts the existence of evolution in any way shape or formKrion_Vark said:
wait, she thinkgs EVOLUTION is a RELIGIOUS scam?trollax said:
wat.
Ummmmmmm... not that I doubt her abilities as a teacher, but you may want to defer your scientific studies to khanacademy.org instead. I watch videos on calculus while in my calc class, because my calculus teacher doesn't seem to know what he's talking about.