Should a head of science in a school be sacked for believing the earth is less than 5000 years old?

Question

on the telly, a question asked by richard dawkins to a science teacher. the answer was , yes i believe the earth is only five thousand years old, and no, i shouldn't be sacked, what do you think?

Answer 1

Either sacked or given a job as an R.E teacher!

Answer 2

No, unless he tries to teach his students that.

Answer 3

I am afraid he is allowed to have his own opinion. Provided that he does not brainwash his pupils with his own erroneous beliefs then he should be permitted to continue in education.

If, however he insists that the earth is less than 5000 years old I suggest he be eliminated from the education of the next generations.

To put him right - the Earth is millions of years old. It is also just one of countless other rocks in deep space where life exists.  

Answer 4

he should get fired, scientists generally are supposed to be intelligent.

Answer 5

Yes, such a fool should be sacked.

Answer 6

I think the science teacher should be sacked.

I think if you asked a doctor how babies are made and he said "the stork brings them" he should be sacked as well.

Answer 7

Absolutely.  

Answer 8

No.

I saw the movie "Expelled" and was shocked by the information in it.

Answer 9

Yes he should not be allowed to teach children science  

Answer 10

I think he should.

There is overwhelming evidence from the scientific community that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, a fact that has been repeatedly tested and affirmed. To deny it is to basically say, "The scientific method does not apply because I believe in a 2000-year old book", which goes against everything scientists stand for.

Answer 11

No person who believes the earth to be less than 5000 years old deserves to head any science department in any school.

Answer 12

I saw that and yes I agree he should. Science and Christianity don't go hand in hand.

Answer 13

If I think back to my school days evolution would have occupied one half hour period; if that. Mostly we were taught what happens when you drop some calcium into water, Ohm's Law, Newton's theory of gravitation - all that sort of thing. So long as he doesn't treat science classes as if they were a vehicle for peddling his eccentric religious opinions, there is no reason why he should be sacked.  

Answer 14

Just corrected, it's c. 6000 years old.

Anyone who has been open-minded enough to look at the facts objectively knows that evolution is nonsense and denies scientific principles and laws.

Answer 15

Yes he should be sacked, he is denying truth to the children.

No person wants their children taught things that are patently untrue.

Answer 16

as long as they teach the children the scientific way, they are free to hold their own opinions. they SHOULD be sacked if they try to teach kids that the earth is 5000 years old. Clearly, the only reason they would believe that, is because they are christian. The 5000 year old earth thing is a christian idea and its not the job of science to teach christianity to children (or the job of public schools at all; its unconstitutional)

Answer 17

The schools have sacked God, why would they stop at a Science teacher?

Answer 18

i think people should not find out but just except it the way it is who really cares how long and years it is really  

Answer 19

Was he promoting his theist beliefs in the classroom? Then yes, by all means he should be sacked. If he was teaching science by the book (and I don't mean the bible) however, then it shouldn't matter what his religious views are, but if he was trying to undermine scientific research and information by presenting it as equal to the christian creation myth then there is no way he should be allowed to keep his job. Period.

Answer 20

Yes. He's plum nuts if he can't accept the mountains of evidence for the Earth's age.

Answer 21

He should be sacked,immediately,and barred from further employment in the education department.End of story

Answer 22

I accept that the Earth is probably about 4.5 billion years old (that's American billions).  I haven't seen first hand evidence of the fact - nor has Richard Dawkins. The small minority of Christians who believe Ussher's hypothesis make it a little over 6,000 years old.  I don't understand why anyone should tell the good Doctor that the Earth is less than 5,000 years old unless they were trying to wind him up.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't want either of them as a science teacher.

Answer 23

Everyone knows it's SIX thousand years old! Is this guy some kind of nut? Of course he should be fired!

What utter bollocks! Only in America! You guys totally crack me up!

Answer 24

He should be sacked--with prejudice.  Let's put this in perspective: the guy who is supposed to be the head of the science department, helping set academic policy on what science is to be taught and how it is to be taught believes the earth was created by fiat about 1000 years after the Sumerians invented glue.

Unacceptable.  

Answer 25

That teacher should be outta there.

If he's not going to believe in science, why should he teach it?  

Answer 26

Oh you mean scientific evidence that is all written by Evolutionists?  When in the hands of non-evolutionists, have been proven to be false or misleading?  Like the Piltdown man who they said was “proof” that man evolved from Apes.  When others were finally allowed to inspect the evidence, it was found out that they “glued” together a human’s skull with that of an Orangutan.  How about carbon dating, they have tested carbon dating on “live” mammals that the results said that the animal was 6000 years old. It had been born two years prior to the test!  Footprints of both man and dinosaurs found together, and I mean modern man not Neanderthal Man.  You mean that kind of scientific evidence?

Answer 27

Um yes

It's his job to teach science, not religion. If  he wants to teach religion then he should go to Yeshiva to learn to become a rabbi

Answer 28

It doesn't matter what the teacher believes personally. What matters is what he teaches the children. If it is in line with the curriculum of that school or educational authority, then he should keep his job. If it is not in line, he is not doing his job and should change or he loses it.

But his personal beliefs are his own business.

Answer 29

Of course not.

Dawkins is a fool.

He has a rabid religious belief in evolution and tries to insist that noone should be allowed to express a dissenting view.

Here's a gem of his:

‘Evolution has been observed. It’s just that it hasn’t been observed while it’s happening.’

Reference

‘Battle over evolution’ Bill Moyers interviews Richard Dawkins, Now, 3 December 2004, PBS network

Answer 30

i think this head of science being has lost his brain totally.

Where did he go to school????? or where did he come up with this idea??????

He better back his answer with some proper argument..............

Such People just make me annoyed.

This person is even not qualified to be where he is...sack him!!!!!!!!!!!!

This argument should even be posted in the newspapers.......and parents better raise their  voices on the very same TV station..........Does that school even have a board of governors?????

Answer 31

Yes they should be sacked and hung by their nads for a period of hmmm 6 weeks.