surely these two conflicting ideas are confursing for small minds?
2006-09-14 02:28:29 · 9 answers · asked by benjbowler 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
God didn't make anything, he simply allowed for it to be made, duh.
2006-09-14 02:33:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps some might say that times were simpler, when we hadn't discovered travel or neighbours, or books or the Internet.
Our knowledge was limited and local. Beliefs came easily, as there was nothing to challenge them.
But simple though those times were, they also kept us in silos, like frogs in the pond, we believed what we saw around us, and didn't have a holistic view or an original view on life or anything around us.
Our world has vastly changed since then. It's picking up pace, countries have opened up, travel is taking us to lands other than our own, and we're blending cultures and knowledge from other societies with such rapidity that one view of anything today is not enough.
Thus, given the circumstances, the only way we can prepare our children for tomorrow's world is by giving them as much information as possible, as many sides to the same story as possible and leave the choices to them.
Genesis. Creationism, Evolution, Intelliegent Design. The lack of belief may confuse them, since they will not find one simple solution, but it will also challenge them to find solutions of their own.
Options, while giving one freedom, also ensures that you take the responsilibility of choice. Which in the long run, will result in more exploration, more questioning, and hopefully more answers.
2006-09-14 02:57:16 · answer #2 · answered by friedpaw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schools don't teach that God made the world in 7 days. That's a Christian belief; why would that be taught as fact in public schools?
2006-09-14 02:37:09 · answer #3 · answered by smartbunny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-14 23:59:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the adults that decide what children learn are having a huge argument about it as they seem to beleive that whichever one is told is going to imprint upon their minds. I don't beleive this, I had compulsory religious education classes in my school right up until I was 16 and I still came out of it an atheist.
2006-09-14 02:36:58 · answer #5 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing wrong with exposing children to that... the schools teach all kind of fantasies and nursery stories... and that are just as ridiculous... so children get to learn that not everything they will learn in school makes sense or is real.
2006-09-14 02:35:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that The Bible's version is taught in school anymore - just evolution - The Bible's truth is taught in churches - praise the Lord!@
2006-09-14 02:38:09 · answer #7 · answered by nswblue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we teach our kids that god made the world in 7 days because that's what the bible tells us. No one knows for sure if he/she did for sure because not one of us was around, so all we have is the bible...and that's what we have to bellieve.
2006-09-14 02:39:42 · answer #8 · answered by jessica j 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They don't really teach creationism is schools anymore. Separation of church and state.
2006-09-14 02:37:15 · answer #9 · answered by bookworm_382 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋