so what great disaster do you think is going to swallow us all up if children are allowed to question darwinism?


Oh, pete, I was sure you would have it by now, but here it is one more time. Darwin must be questioned all the time, just like any other piece of science. But it must be based on evidence, not just opinion. Scientic advance depends upon questioning not only things you don't yet know, but also things that you think you do.

However, there is a very serious point, which could prove to be 'a great disaster which could swallow us all up' and that is when children are not taught to distinguish between sound argument with use of evidence and mere opinion, whim and fashion. I think there is a very plausible argument that the financial disasters we are currently going through are largely due to people acting on fashion and opinion without trying to form a rational basis for what they are doing.