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Xylakanttoday at 6:51 AM2 repliesview on HN

Equating both of these things is dangerous and wrong. It’s not as if these are the same things. Creationism is factually provably wrong by all standards of modern science. Pretending that the position of “we ban teaching things that are known to be wrong” and the position that “we ban teaching things that are by modern standards correct, but uncomfortable to our world view” is a large part of the problem.


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palmoteatoday at 7:17 AM

> Equating both of these things is dangerous and wrong. It’s not as if these are the same things.

What's really going on is you seem so caught up in your own biases that you can't even see what you're doing.

> Creationism is factually provably wrong by all standards of modern science. Pretending that the position of “we ban teaching things that are known to be wrong”

Do you really think the reason teaching creationism in American public schools is banned is because it's "factually provably wrong by all standards of modern science?"

I kinda get the impression you may be someone who has a hard time distinguishing between your subjective view and objectivity. This controversy isn't in any way shape or form about "book bans," it's really about the political decision about whose subjective view will prevail in schools. But at least one side won't admit that, because there's power in gaslighting people and power in mischaracterizing things to hit certain buttons. Regardless of who wins, the same types of "curation" activities will occur in school libraries.

mlrtimetoday at 11:37 AM

Where is the bill that creationism is being forced to be taught?