If the government wants to control 3D printed guns, all they need to do is convince HP to enter the market. They'll be selling 3D printers for $10 at Walmart, but you'll have to mortgage your house to print off a gun.
Seriously though, why is it such a horible thing to have an alternate view presented.
The problem is that this is a science textbook. It should present the mainstream, consensus version of modern science. Evolution is accepted as part of mainstream biology because it has a vast amount of evidence supporting it - creationism has none.
If creationists can find enough valid scientific data to support their view and prove evolutionary theory incorrect, then it will be eventually be accepted as part of mainstream biology (as it was a couple of centuries ago) and then it will belong in science textbooks.
A lot of information in textbooks has someone with an "alternate view". For example:
A growing number of holocaust deniers claim the Nazi holocaust never happened.
A popular conspiracy theory claims that NASA faked the Apollo moon shots.
Should we also discuss these as alternate views in public school textbooks?
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If the government wants to control 3D printed guns, all they need to do is convince HP to enter the market. They'll be selling 3D printers for $10 at Walmart, but you'll have to mortgage your house to print off a gun.
Can I come over for your Olympics party?
The problem is that this is a science textbook. It should present the mainstream, consensus version of modern science. Evolution is accepted as part of mainstream biology because it has a vast amount of evidence supporting it - creationism has none.
If creationists can find enough valid scientific data to support their view and prove evolutionary theory incorrect, then it will be eventually be accepted as part of mainstream biology (as it was a couple of centuries ago) and then it will belong in science textbooks.
A lot of information in textbooks has someone with an "alternate view". For example:
A growing number of holocaust deniers claim the Nazi holocaust never happened.
A popular conspiracy theory claims that NASA faked the Apollo moon shots.
Should we also discuss these as alternate views in public school textbooks?