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> If adults want to remain ignorant, so be it, but at least teach children the truth. Let them know that life is incredibly complicated, it's a mystery we're st
by teleforce 2y ago
> If adults want to remain ignorant, so be it, but at least teach children the truth. Let them know that life is incredibly complicated, it's a mystery we're still solving, and they could be the ones to help figure it out. Don't overly simplify things for small minds, it creates a false picture and it kills the imagination.
Yes we should have this firm stance and accept nothing less especially when it come to something fundamental such as the Theory of Evolution. It's a shame that some scientists are even promoting that human come from monkey while the fact that from Darwin own observation was that monkey and human probably share the same ancestor not human come from monkey and even that's debatable. They even create a false picture that now become a "universal truth" printed on people shirts and kind of accepted as truth as far as layman and kids are concerned [1]. But now even the one making the picture is regretting it but the damaged has already been done. Einstein once mentioned "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler". By making things simpler than simpler (pun intended), we are creating distortion and falsehood that can take years and perhaps centuries to be fixed, and just ask the "flat earth" crowd.
[1] On the Origins of “The March of Progress”:
https://sites.wustl.edu/prosper/on-the-origins-of-the-march-of-progress/ https://sites.wustl.edu/prosper/on-the-origins-of-the-march-...