When my company was owned by Pratt & Whitney\/United Technologies, we were obliged to implement an \u2018operating\u2019 system of process improvement procedures called ACE, \u201cAchieving Competitive Excellence\u201d. <\/p>\n
From my browsing of favorite websites, I\u2019ve gathered there is another \u2018ACE\u2019, Accelerated Christian Education<\/a>, which is a school curriculum based in Tennessee designed to indoctrinate (it can\u2019t be \u2018educate\u2019) children into a Christian worldview. <\/p>\n This post, What My Christian School Taught Me About Atheism<\/a>, is pretty scary. Even English grammar lessons are taught via religious statements designed to constantly reinforce biblical fortitude. The post describes how ACE\u2019s philosophy of education is based on four presuppositions, where are paraphrased thusly:<\/p>\n As the article notes, <\/p>\n \nIf teachers are accepting these fallacious arguments, presumably they believe this is valid reasoning. If this is what they are modeling for their students, I worry about the impact on students\u2019 ability to think rationally in other areas, too.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My interest in this isn\u2019t to harp about religion, exactly, but to wonder, again, about hypocrisy. These four arguments are so obviously lame, having been defeated by reason and evidence for centuries, that you can\u2019t help but wonder why there are still being deployed. What are the possible reasons? That ACE educators don\u2019t *understand* the reasons that undermine these arguments? I.e., they are dumb? Or that they deploy them hypocritically to children under the age of reason, because it\u2019s more important to inculcate children into a tradition of faith, no matter how irrational? (This is actually a very serious question about the potential for humanity to grow out of its evolutionary biased past of tribalism and superstition.)<\/p>\n Isn\u2019t there a commandment<\/a> about not bearing false witness? Isn\u2019t propagating invalidated arguments false witness, i.e., lying? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my company was owned by Pratt & Whitney\/United Technologies, we were obliged to implement an \u2018operating\u2019 system of process improvement procedures called ACE, \u201cAchieving Competitive Excellence\u201d. From my browsing of favorite websites, I\u2019ve gathered there is another \u2018ACE\u2019, Accelerated … Continue reading \n