Electric Sceptic said:
You attempted to do so when you supported creationism, with its agenda of getting creationism taught in schools as science.
I have never supported teaching creationism in the public schools. I rejected this idea the first time I heard of it because of my belief that science and political systems corrupt religion. I support creationism in light of scientific discovery but it is well beyond the reach of basic biology and a more advanced and philosophical pursuit that has nothing to do with public school education.
They have always been mutually exclusive. One is concerned with the natural; the other is concerned with the supernatural.
They have never been mutually exclusive, knowledge is knowledge. The question is how you attain knowledge, not the source, and certainly not the conclusion. Or, don't you know the literal meaning of the word science?
No, your support of creationism is attempting to force your religious beliefs on others.
My religious views are to who so ever will and have absolutly nothing to what scientists do in a lab. What is more you know nothing of my beliefs, you don't know what they are or where they lead me.
Finding competent science teachers is, indeed, difficult.
Because they can find better paying jobs in the private sector.
And creationists further make their job harder by trying to turn them into religious evangelists.
Something that has never happened because creationism is barred from public education of science. No science teacher has been forced to become a religious evangelist unless you mean the Darwinian with the dogma of univeral common descent. I imagine more then a few potential science teachers have abandoned public education over that.
Creationism has everything to do with religion and the topic of the OP. Sadly, it also has something to do with science, because creationists like you keep attempting to convince us that creationism IS science.
Let's see if I follow here...creationism is religion...ok I agree...so what? Creationism has something to do with science in that scientific evidence and theories are involved...again...so what?
I never said that creationism was science, I never said that my love for my children was science, I never said that the sun will rise tommorow was science, again so what?
I said, that parents were more interested in potty training then they were creationism and that finding competant science teachers was the biggest problem for teaching science.
Here lies the biggest problem facing the teaching of science in the public schools, social and political agendas that have nothing to do with science.
Have a nice day
Mark