Today, I received another death threat for teaching evolution in college. I'm a geology teacher. FML
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Today, a student set me on fire while I was lecturing my class about proper lab safety. FML
Today, we were discussing evolution at the super-religious school I'm forced to attend. I mentioned homo sapiens, and my teacher mockingly replied, "You actually believe in homo sapiens? Hahahah!" The whole class started laughing. No, not at the teacher; at me. FML
Today, a parent of one of the students I teach called me to complain that I was teaching her child "lies" and "fairytales". I was teaching them about the Holocaust. FML
Today, I received a death threat from some nutball accusing me of being part of some big government conspiracy called "Haarp." According to this psycho, I'm responsible for causing the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma. I'm just a small-time weatherman. FML
Today, I had environmental science class. My teacher doesn't believe humans are affecting climate change or that we should protect endangered species. He slants class discussions so now all my classmates agree with him. FML
Today, my professor snapped and told me that I know nothing, that everything I've ever learned is wrong, and that all of my former teachers should be shot. FML
Today, I got paper thrown at me because I didn't agree with my classmate's conspiracy theory that Brian Griffin's death was planned by the illuminati. FML
Today, I was sitting in social studies and someone threw a note at me. It said "Go fuck yourself, everyone hates you, just die." FML
Today, I was once again berated by an idiotic parent. I’ve been called a filthy liberal, a groomer, and had my job threatened several times. All of this because I was teaching second graders about pronouns. You know, the part of English grammar that replaces a noun. Nothing political at all. FML
Today, I was teaching and a boy sitting in front kept laughing and smiling, even after I asked him to cut it out. I got so annoyed that I jokingly said I'd knock his teeth out, and asked him to leave the class. The kid went to the principal and told him I intended to hurt him. I'm a college professor. FML
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dohdohdoh 13
Seriously sucks to be you. Teach them not to breed to keep our gene pool healthy. UP the bum no babies class!!!
shayshayshazam 14
Whoever sent it is clearly still in ape-form
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Zoomali 1
Death threats to teachers? I always thought sucking up to teacher would be good for my grades. Things must have changed
darwinism 30
Rocks evolve too! As to your death threat, for your next lesson, teach the class how death is like evolving to a different state of being.
MuldRAR 6
Jesus is the way! Same as flying spaghetti monsters and other such creatures...
ambear26 14
Are you implying that Jesus is a creature ? You don't have to believe in him no one is forcing you to but you don't need to disrespect other religions.
MuldRAR 6
... Well, that escalated quickly
charlieo88 3
This. The OP probably doesn't teach "Young Earth" geology.
outerspacey 2
it's sad that people can't share their beliefs with science.
doctorhook86 25
44: I completely agree. These things are only incompatible if you insist on not thinking critically.
MMcspifter 2
I guess I was lucky, my college geology prof not on believes in god but also evolution.
hurrican_fml 0
Can you believe the religious nuts that call themselves Amaricans?
seriouslythat 6
Well America has freedom of religion so why are you so surprised there are so many extremists? You can still be American and be religious I don't see how that would get in the way of being an American.
williamcarter93 13
What is wrong with people? Do they even stop to think about the reason behind doing something? I assume they sent you the threats because of the assumption that evolution was an attack on their religion. Don't they see that evolution and religious creationism are not even related?
doodlecloud 27
Well...they are. The world can't have gone from creation to human life in both 7 days and millions of years. You gotta pick one. :|
superbat101 3
Evolution?? Really?? What a joke. Not saying you deserve death threats by any means, how ever thats completley stupid. If it were so we would witness this our selfs, our children would come out as apes. As anybody that researches this or teaches it, studied darwin at all??? If you have how can you say it is true when darwin himself on his deathbed said he made it all up! Has no evidence, hhhmmm teachers these days.
Wheredidgrungego 12
I really hope you're trolling.
darwinism 30
48, it seems like you are the one that has not evolved. Evolution takes a long time. But I get your point, according to the numerous eyewitness accounts, it is better to believe that all you need to create life is a spare rib and a little mud. You should go to this teachers' class and maybe you could learn a thing or two.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 23
As #54 would say, I really hope you're trolling too. Darwin never rejected his own theories, I don’t know where you got that information from. Evolution is not something you see happening over night (this is not X-Men). Evolution represents very slow changes that happen over hundreds of thousands of years. You cannot see it happening over lifetime. But if you only believe what you see, I guess you don’t believe in God either? :)
Levvy 22
Yeah, no. The "Darwin recanted" thing is a common legend trotted out. Find one reliable source that supports it.
Ugi 27
Oh, but you can #61. Every time someone has a drug treatment and the bacteria/viruses etc come back "resistant" it is just the survival of the fittest - that tiny % that had a little resistance were selected over the others and grew & got selected again etc. Same with cancers that come back resistant to chemo' - those cells that didn't die get selected for and grow. You can't see it in humans because our generation time is so long. The point is that it has to occur over multiple generations rather than any particular period. Survival of the "fittest" can be a bugger, but there's no shortage of evidence for it. PS I also hope #48 is a troll.
RedPillSucks 33
1. Did you actually ever read Darwin, or just the religious propaganda? No where in the theory does it say humans descended from apes. It says that all primates (including apes and humans) have a common ancestor. Good Lord. 2. Evolution doesn't always take a long time. Scientists study things like fruitflies over many generations and can make observations that verify evolution.
Cassandrax731 5
#48, I don't think you know what evolution is. Please go look it up or something, because there is no way giving birth to apes would ever make sense, even in Darwin's theory. And Darwin recanting would be like the Dalai Llama (sp?) saying on his deathbed, "LOL jk I never actually believed in peace. Violence ftw!"
AngelicTide 11
I studied anthropology. Guess how many times I get asked about dinosaurs. I'm not even kidding! -_-
snowman6 4
I guess they could threaten you for teaching Old Earth Theory lol