Do you think Biblical Creationism should be taught along side Evolution and Big Bang theory in public schools? If so, should non-Biblical creation be also taught? Why or Why not?
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NO. No creationism, no intelligent design, nothing to do with the Bible other than history/culture references in history class. Science belongs in science class, religion does not. In the interest of fairness, the principles of every religion would have to be taught if Christianity were, and that is unrealistic, would cause tremendous uproar, and is NOT what public school is for. If parents want their children taught about the Bible and creationism, they can send their kids to church and church school or a private religiously affiliated school, NOT public school.
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Evolution should be the only scientific subject taught in any school,including religious schools.If we want our children to believe in reality and not fantasy creationism should be stopped in its tracks.To believe that the earth is only 10,000 years old borders on insanity. It is just another way religionists to shove nonsense down the throats of sane people.
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There are religious schools for those types of people. I think regular schools should only teach scientific creation. Think about it....when it comes up one day in a serious conversation, who is going to take ANYONE seriously who believes the earth was created in 5,000 years(or a week or whatever their number is)? It is so mind boggling to me, that there are people that believe this shit.
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Nope. Not at all. If Creationism WAS a valid scientific theory, it WOULD be taught in science class in schools, without any of this nonsense with court cases and wedge strategies and "equal time" pleas from religious folk. It would stand on its own merits. It doesn't, and so is not a valid scientific theory, full-stop. Put it in Comparative Religions maybe, alongside the dozens of other creation stories...
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I think that the best student is the best/most informed student. I think that if you are going to teach one THEORY as to how something happened, you should teach all/most THEORIES as to how it happened to offer students with the most amount of options and to expand their imaginations/critical thinking skills outside of the box.
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well i think that anything about our creation of our world should be taught in our schools because we dont FREAKEN know. its all a bunch of theorys so there is no proven facts about either of them.
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Alongside? No. Science should be taught in science classes and religions (all of them. Not just Christianity. I, for example, want to hear about how the god Ptah masturbated the world into existence or how that other god balanced the nascent world on the back of a giant trout) should be taught in sociology or cultural anthropology classes. We don't find mathematics taught alongside comparative lit do we?
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I don't recall beibg taught ANYTHING about the origin of life in school. How important is this subject, really? they should teach office politics in school, that's MUCH more important and useful.
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Biblical fables have no place in public schools, especially as a substitute for science.
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Biblical Creationism is no more Biblical than it is scientific. So, no. What should be taught in the public schools is a Biblical - or at least a Theistic - worldview, specifically in the matter of a Theistic view of life, humanity, morality, and nature. Say what you will, but this is the exact same view as Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and all the drafters and signers of the Declaration, the Articles, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and also all the members of the 1st Congress. The 1st Congress (which also produced the Bill of Rights) actually made it a requirement for Statehood that the Territory first have a public school system that had as its main purpose the promotion of morality and religion. (See the Northwest Ordinances.) Deal with it.
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