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December 11th, 2012, 08:40 PM
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#1 | | Scholar
Joined: Apr 2012 From: Asheville/Charlotte NC Posts: 536 | Were You Taught Evolution as Theory or Fact?
Were you publicly educated and what country?
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December 11th, 2012, 08:55 PM
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#2 | | What we have, we hold
Joined: Mar 2011 From: 6th Century Constantinople Posts: 3,334 |
I live in Australia. I was educated in public and private schools. Both taught evolution as a fact.
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December 11th, 2012, 11:13 PM
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#3 | | This title is too lo
Joined: Apr 2010 From: T'Republic of Yorkshire Posts: 15,958 |
I was privately educated, and it wasn't included as part of the curriculum. What I was taught was critical thinking, which allows me to evaluate the evidence and accept it as fact.
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December 11th, 2012, 11:14 PM
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#4 | | Lecturer
Joined: Sep 2012 From: Too far from the Orient Posts: 442 |
Publicly educated in Britain, where we were taught that it was fact.
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December 12th, 2012, 12:49 AM
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#5 | | Lecturer
Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 342 |
Both. And I was also publicly educated in Britain. It was only a very small part of the Biology curriculum when I was at school though, don't know about today.
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December 12th, 2012, 01:09 AM
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#6 | | Archivist
Joined: Apr 2012 From: Jerk Store Posts: 121 |
Isn't evolution kind of both, a scientific theory and a fact that has been proven by experiments (microevolution, macroevolution(?)) and inference (macroevolution)?
In Finland it is extremely uncommon to have private basic education so naturally I was dosed with evilution from the get go. Now I have no morals and just hail satan all night long.
In short: evolution vs. creatonism is not an issue here save in some wacky fringe christian etc groups. But they be loony.
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December 12th, 2012, 01:26 AM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: Oct 2012 From: Between a rock and a hard place Posts: 1,524 |
Private schooling with little or no teching of evolution.
What do i believe now, i believe evolution is a theory and a darn fine one at that.
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December 12th, 2012, 01:27 AM
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#8 | | αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν
Joined: Jan 2010 From: Lower Saxony Posts: 10,355 |
We had a bit about evolutionary theory in the end of school in biology. It was taught as fact. many years before we were told about the creation myth of the bible. I can't remember anybody offered the creation myth as one theory of many others, too. | | |
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December 12th, 2012, 01:39 AM
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#9 | | Historian
Joined: Jul 2012 From: Terra di San Marco Posts: 1,275 |
Public school in Italy, teached as fact
Though evolution is indeed a theory in the scientific sense of the word. That doesn't mean that it's "theory" in the common sense of something without much proof. The words here make a typical confusion
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December 12th, 2012, 01:52 AM
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#10 | | Archivist
Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 133 |
I was taught on the Facts.!!!!
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