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Well, I don't feel like doing anything in science this term, and I have found out a way of getting out of it. (I realise what I'm suggesting is morally wrong, and its not right to abuse religion like that, so spare me that bit) Say I convert to Christianity (from Atheist) and refuse to do science, or answer every question with "the Lord's will". Do you think the school can mark me wrong? Or would they rather face a PR nightmare. Your opinion please.

They will mark you wrong without a second thought.

I went to a Catholic school and they would still have marked any one wrong who tried to pull anything like that.

Really? have you actually seen them do it?

to do this youll have to go extreme

dress in a monks robe,
get yourself a healthy supply of holy water
and when the teacher says anything, hold up a crucifix and shout blasphamy.

watch monty pythons life of brian. they were some funny and extreme christians

*gets out memebrship card to Judan people front* (not to be confused with the peoples front of judea

Better yet, prove that you're a hazard in the lab and thus a hazard to everyone else and that even being near a science text boom might give you warped ideas...

Really? have you actually seen them do it?
No, but I know what my teachers were like, even the religion teachers would have demanded more than a simple "God did it" for an answer in most cases.

No, but I know what my teachers were like, even the religion teachers would have demanded more than a simple "God did it" for an answer in most cases.
What if the question was, "Who made man?" :D

If you're going to do that, you should make a production out of it. A crucifix, genuflection and some mumbled Latin phrase at random times a teacher mentions something scientific, shouts of blasphemy and damnation if he or she mentions evolution or the Big Bang, sprinkling of holy water over any beakers or scales, etc. etc.

What if the question was, "Who made man?" :D
Hence the most case's, although they would say that he most likely did it using by being behind evolution, and not in the ID sense.

We're doing chemistry so

"GOD created blahblahacid, not you, HEATHEN!"

I have a crucifix and robes!

First you have to approach the media, preferrably some Fox Talking Head. Then you take a tape recorder and a TV crew with you, then you do it.

Then they show it on prime time, and the teacher gets fired while about a dozen angry parents yell at another dozen angry parents outside. Then Pat Robertson calls for frogs to fall from the skies.

First you have to approach the media, preferrably some Fox Talking Head. Then you take a tape recorder and a TV crew with you, then you do it.

Then they show it on prime time, and the teacher gets fired while about a dozen angry parents yell at another dozen angry parents outside. Then Pat Robertson calls for frogs to fall from the skies.
And then the rest of the world sighs... "not again; those silly Christians never learn."

Theres no FOX news in Canada, any good equivalent? I'd say the CBC, cuz theyll cover anything, but then again, noone watches that

Theres no FOX news in Canada, any good equivalent? I'd say the CBC, cuz theyll cover anything, but then again, noone watches that
BLASPHEMY! How dare you suggest such a thing! CBC is light years ahead of that trash some Americans call 'news', and plenty of people watch CBC.

If you want trash, get CJOH to cover it.

Theres no FOX news in Canada, any good equivalent? I'd say the CBC, cuz theyll cover anything, but then again, noone watches that
Canada? Then you're fucked. This stunt only works in the U.S. There, you'll be laughed out of society.

BLASPHEMY! How dare you suggest such a thing! CBC is light years ahead of that trash some Americans call 'news', and plenty of people watch CBC.

If you want trash, get CJOH to cover it.

I get both Canadian and American channels since I live close enough to the border. The news isn't really that different lol. Canada does focus more on the rebuilding of Iraq and things like that rather than the death tolls like America does.

Canada? Then you're fucked. This stunt only works in the U.S. There, you'll be laughed out of society.
I want to go away from Canada, so this plan works well!

If I were your teacher, I would give you the opportunity to provide scientific proof for your stance, but I would insist on a much more detailed level of scholarship than the students in the class who were learning the material I was teaching.

If you could not prove your case scientifically, and still refused to learn the curriculum, I would flunk you in a heartbeat, and gladly welcome any publicity you tried to bring and use it to offer proof to the world that your stance was not only idiotic, but, by your own inability to support it, wrong.

Why don't you just take the science course? You might just learn something.

If I were your teacher, I would give you the opportunity to provide scientific proof for your stance, but I would insist on a much more detailed level of scholarship than the students in the class who were learning the material I was teaching.

If you could not prove your case scientifically, and still refused to learn the curriculum, I would flunk you in a heartbeat, and gladly welcome any publicity you tried to bring and use it to offer proof to the world that your stance was not only idiotic, but, by your own inability to support it, wrong.

Why don't you just take the science course? You might just learn something.
I am taking science, I have no interest in it, but I must

Now you want me to scientifically explain God? you have any clue how insulting that would be to the hardcore-religious dude i'm planning to play?

Perhaps if you worked as hard in the science class as you are planning how to get out of it, it wouldn't be so bad.

Well, I don't feel like doing anything in science this term, and I have found out a way of getting out of it. (I realise what I'm suggesting is morally wrong, and its not right to abuse religion like that, so spare me that bit) Say I convert to Christianity (from Atheist) and refuse to do science, or answer every question with "the Lord's will". Do you think the school can mark me wrong? Or would they rather face a PR nightmare. Your opinion please.

School doesn't give a shit.
You just fail.

I am taking science, I have no interest in it, but I must

Now you want me to scientifically explain God? you have any clue how insulting that would be to the hardcore-religious dude i'm planning to play?

It is a science class. If you wish to express contradictory opinions, they must be expressed in the terms of the class. If the only reason you can state for not wanting to learn what I am teaching is "God said so" (and, frankly, in a chemistry class, I am not sure how you would even APPLY that) then no, I would not accept that as an answer.

Explain, if you would, how chemistry is against your religion?

And, quite honestly, as the teacher in that class, I would not care one iota if I insulted you for an idiotic stance. I certainly would not call you names, nor denigrate you, but I would be happy to allow you to make an utter ass of yourself. What you have here is a lose/lose situation. Might as well just suck it up and go learn something.

Well, I don't feel like doing anything in science this term, and I have found out a way of getting out of it. (I realise what I'm suggesting is morally wrong, and its not right to abuse religion like that, so spare me that bit) Say I convert to Christianity (from Atheist) and refuse to do science, or answer every question with "the Lord's will". Do you think the school can mark me wrong? Or would they rather face a PR nightmare. Your opinion please.
wrong on both Science and Religion aspects.

all you'll end up doing is making an @$$ of yourself... or worse, get recruited into Phelp's group.

Just get a decent education so you stand a chance of earning more than minimum wage, if you're still at the age/level where you have compulsory science classes, chances are its not even hard. (at least that would be the case in the UK where you can take minimal science from age 14 and none at all after 16).