South Korea Gives In, Removes Evolution From Textbooks.

That's the whole reason civilized persons codify the law and means to uphold it. Else we risk everything coming down to vendetta.

Hey everybody, welcome to Albania.

Well, at least America will be smarter than another country for once.

Good point, and then the elephants take it out, too.

ashkelon wrote:That's the whole reason civilized persons codify the law and means to uphold it. Else we risk everything coming down to vendetta.

Hey everybody, welcome to Albania.

That's the thing; on the one hand, building a code that works for everyone helps to break up the conflicts otherwise so common in our nature in the past.

On the other, dogmatic approaches to the question of which laws to follow cause even larger scale conflicts at times.
From the cold war to the crusades.
Ideology always seems to float some trigger-happy individual's boat as a pretext for conflict, from time to time.

You mentioned Albania. I'd like to hear more about it; sounds interesting.

South Korea? of all places? wow..

I would've thought this country (USA) would pull some stupid crap like that..

Well I'm glad I've already graduated from HS AND live in the US. -_-

CloudyVision wrote:This is why I will one day move to Canada.

Now, this business about evolution being banned from South Korea's textbooks shouldn't be that big a surprise. In fact, it almost happened here in the United States. Remember Rick Santorum, anyone? Yeah, he dropped out of the presidential race and everyone forgot about him and his idiocy. But during the campaign, he said that if he became president, he would ban the teaching of evolution in America's schools and make all the teachers teach creationism instead. Fortunately, he dropped out of the race, so the next generation's knowledge of the way the world works won't be jeopardized. But this should serve as a warning—we are slowly returning to the way things were before. I am very biased on the subject, and say what you like, I tend to blame it all on conservative Christians. I'm always saying that at this rate, in another fifty years we'll have taken away women's suffrage, and in another hundred we'll have slavery again. This is an exaggeration of course, but banning the teaching of evolution is only the first step. The first rolling pebble that triggers the landslide, shall we say.

Beware everyone. It may be too slow to notice, but we may be slowly reversing the progress we've made in the past 236 years.

Oh I wouldn't worry about this, unlike the 1600's-1900's people will stop being subservient to the idiot majority, at this point if Conservative-Christians (or whatever) try that nonsense their will be CHAOS.

Will that decision on their part be worth it? I think not.

CaptainOomp wrote:Well, at least America will be smarter than another country for once.

No kidding...

Aaaaaand a triple-post. There is an edit button, please use it and add to your original post, then we can take you more seriously. Dankashe. :3

MisterTurtle wrote:Aaaaaand a triple-post. There is an edit button, please use it and add to your original post, then we can take you more seriously. Dankashe. :3

Thank you, i realize this. no need to say anything it was a mistake I know an edit button works, let's contribute to the topic instead of my posts alright?

Anyway about the good/evil thing, it's only their to keep society stable and by proxy keeping the species alive as well.

No philosphy or religion is required it's simply a natural instinct of social survival.

ZhaoYun9 wrote:

MisterTurtle wrote:Aaaaaand a triple-post. There is an edit button, please use it and add to your original post, then we can take you more seriously. Dankashe. :3

Thank you, i realize this. no need to say anything it was a mistake I know an edit button works, let's contribute to the topic instead of my posts alright?

Anyway about the good/evil thing, it's only their to keep society stable and by proxy keeping the species alive as well.

No philosphy or religion is required it's simply a natural instinct of social survival.

Consensus itself is a toned down version of the tribal structure of early man, & the troop structure of our primate ancestors.
Fears will be dubbed evil eventually. Thne related traits will also be frowned upon; such as those we witness in Hyenas.
We even may have learnt to sing by trying to outsing Hyenas in disputes, according to some theories.

"Fears will be dubbed evil eventually

Exactly and giving in to fear itself creates "evil" as well.

It's strange. Fear itself is quite core, & even ties in to survival. Morbid stuff.
Both of which represented the competition with such animals as hyenas (well, the equivalent of the hyena in that time period) etc.

We have an instinct to fear snakes, even when we've yet to get ot the stage at which most other fears are formed.
And here's the mind-blower: the Adam & Eve story represents temptation, Satan etc., as.... a snake!

Weird or what?

cpelite wrote:It's strange. Fear itself is quite core, & even ties in to survival. Morbid stuff.
Both of which represented the competition with such animals as hyenas (well, the equivalent of the hyena in that time period) etc.

We have an instinct to fear snakes, even when we've yet to get ot the stage at which most other fears are formed.
And here's the mind-blower: the Adam & Eve story represents temptation, Satan etc., as.... a snake!

Weird or what?

satan was probeble put as a snake because of peoples natural fear os snakes.

As I was saying, of course.

Weird that people & snakes are such polar opposites.

fear of snakes is cultural, not all societies viewed them as avatars of evil.