Proteins (nucleic acids, protease bases, etcetera) were the first form of "self-reproduction" that existed. These proteins have been reproduced and observed in the lab for many years, and they are known to have existed on early earth. I fail to understand why and how, after all this, one would still insist that faith has any place in scientific teaching and understanding. Come on, the information (and I'm talking about HARD information here, not FAITH, nor requiring faith in anything except the scientific process) is out there! Maybe it's more an issue of knowing
where to look than anything, but to not be able to find something yourself and extrapolate
that to nothing exists to prove these ideas is flat wrong.
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Again, science is repeatable, by anyone, faith is not. Hell, V.S. Ramachandran has already demonstrated that epiphanatic (i.e. religious) episodes can be stimulated in the human brain by a variety of things, among those being certain types of epileptic seizures, strong magnetic pulses, and electrical stimulation. It was reported somewhat erroneously in the press as the brain's "religious center". And guess what!
That is also repeatable.
Now take that and tell us that it is more likely than not that there is a God rather than it is our brains' functioning abnormally (as compared to other species/animals)
and that is what should be being taught.
I disagree with the assertion that professors of
science should not lose their tenure or teaching positions for teaching something that is entirely faith-based as science, as I believe they should. Faith is so malleable that no one can agree on whether or not there are many gods/goddesses versus one "true" god. And of those who agree that there is a single god can't fucking agree on how to worship it. How on EARTH can this mindset be included in something that is so cut and dried as hard science? They should lose their positions as scientists, for faith is not science. They should lose their tenure, and if they wish to teach faith then start a church, don't take other peoples' money to ostensibly teach something like science and mix in faith. Nuh uh, not for me.