Posted: Nov 23, 2014 4:17 pm
laklak wrote:Pouring water into aqueous HCL is dangerous. Climbing a 500MV power transmission tower is dangerous. Playing Russian Roulette is dangerous. Not teaching creationism is not only NOT dangerous, it's eminently sensible. Let the kiddy-fiddlers teach it in Sunday School if they must, but don't waste taxpayer money teaching it in publicly supported schools.
Not teaching creationism is sensible.
Letting government dictate the content of school instruction is dangerous. If they're allowed to meddle, they won't restrict their meddling to the subject and topic you approve of.
The Americans just elected the kind of government that will ban the teaching of evolution, anything to do with birth control, the wrong sort of history, anything that smacks of socialism.... anything. What guarantees Scotland immunity from the global rightward shift?