Were you thought about human evolution in school?
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I grew up in the deep South, where the majority of people are Southern Baptist. I only heard mention of evolution in school and what little I was taught was not really evolution at all, but church propaganda. When I got into college and started doing some reading and research of my own, I finally began to gain a little understanding of evolution.
Nope we had an inferior xtian national party apartheid syllabus. I read books to educate myself.
I remember my mother screaming at my primary school head teacher after I came home and told her human beings were animals just like bunnies.
If I recall correctly the Head teacher told her she was not going to teach her pupils that they were vegitables, no matter how much their parents appeared to be evidence to the contrary.
I had some excellent science teachers. My Biology/Anatomy/Zoology teacher through high school was an open atheist. He retired and joined the Peace Corp to work on a Galapagos project related to the evolution of some of the native species there. He very passionately and thoroughly taught the real deal.
Yes. None of that intelligent design bullshit. That's disgraceful.
What makes human evolution different than evolution of any other organism. We are just another bioligical organism and subject to the same evolutionary laws. We are just ethnocentric enough to assume we are not. Our advanced abstract thinking ability does not preclude us to the laws of evolution. Geologic time is long, as a species we are young. We have already made our species evolutionarily unfit and evolution will have the last word.
It would be nice if people were taught about human evolution. A lot of people think we evolved from Chimpanzees, wihich is wrong. Some think we evolved from Neanderthal which is also wrong. Maybe if we were given more detail about human evolution, more people would believe in it