100 for what

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The Italian scientist and oldest living Nobel laureate, Rita Levi-Montalcini, is celebrating her 100th birthday. Despite her age, she still works every day at the European Brain Research Institute which she founded in Rome. In 2004, the revered scientist intervened to defend the teaching of evolution in Italian schools when the then education minister wanted to remove it from school curricula. """

I still wait for someone to tell us how or why the origin of the species matters to our understanding of life ? ?

No one can prove what happened 10,000 years ago let alone 10,000,000 years. No one can disprove that everything was made within the last 10,000 years. No one can prove that we can see 10,000,000,000 light years into the past. On the other hand I can not disprove that we can see however far you seem to think that you can see.

In fact we have a hard time proving what happened yesterday, even if we have it on video ! !

Any one Can be a doctor quite successfuly without knowing where people came from. Anyone can be a vet without knowing where the critter came from. The point is IF you insist that we Have to teach evolution in school then you HAVE to agree that ALL the possibilities MUST be taught - otherwise get evolution OUT of the school along with all other references to the origin of everything and teach the kids what we DO know ! !

So Rita has lived for 100 years. That is good. And it is refreshing to know that she is still at work. But what for ? ? Has ANYthing that she learned been absolutely dependent on evolution ? ? How many hours of her 100 years of experience and knowledge would she have to give up if she gave up evolution ? ? Suppose she put 10,000 hours into it. Would her life be any different if we cut just that part out ? ?

Teach the kids to read and write. Teach them to add and subtract. Teach them how to build things. Teach them the things that we Know. And give them the freedom to work out their own interests.

Religion, TRUE religion, is for each person to choose what they want to believe (though I know that few really do alow their patrons that freedom) BUT school is manditory. OK, if you insist on that, then stick to what we know when we teach kids at school.