Reply #83: You admitted to the influence [View All]

[skepticscott]

of fundamentalism only after you were confronted with incontrovertible fact to that effect. When you made your initial comment and were expressing your real opinions, you made no mention of it.

Your analogies with China and Germany fall apart on their face. The "nonsense" they were fed was specifically designed to promote unquestioning loyalty to an authoritarian state, and deep hatred and suspicion of those who were outside. Teaching kids that the earth is 6000 years old does no such thing for any political party, only for religious zealots who wish to impose the tenets of their faith on everyone.

And no...even if science education were mediocre in Japan, there would still be no teaching of creationism. You might have a poor understanding of evolution, but religious fundamentalism (which is, again, the SOLE driving force behind attempts to impose creationism on schools) does not wield enough influence in Japan to implement that agenda. There are many countries out there where science education is poor, but they don't automatically lapse into teaching creationism or "intelligent" design because of that.