Reply #16: Where do you get that?

[msmcghee]

Nothing RUDUing2 said implies that he wants to open the door to creationism in science class.

I think he offers a sound proposal. In fact, many biological textbooks that I have read start off with just such a caveat. But I went to school forty years ago before we started this slide to anti-intellectualism - so I don't know what they say these days.

Science is not a belief system that depends on hiding facts so people will not question the dogma. It is a fact that some people prefer myths to scientific explanations of life.

There's no danger in acknowledging that at the start of a book on science and explaining the difference - and suggesting that the reader go elsewhere if mythology is their interest.

There is the danger of hypocrisy in failing to do so.