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Including the Hopi story where a Spiderwoman creates life, Chinese creation story where the universe was created by a giant egg, and a Cherokee creation story where animals were bored in a giant stone safe in space so they moved to earth???

2007-02-13 05:39:02 · 16 answers · asked by DougDoug_ 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Absolutely. If the 'creationists' want their mutation in U.S. science classes, then alternatives must be provided and in the same context. Kids are great b detectors, they'll figure out which one is true.

Of course, 'creationists' are one of a very few religious groups that see their view as a literal truth. The rest of the world understands the concept of metaphor.

2007-02-13 06:01:50 · answer #1 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 2 1

Yes. If creationism is taught in schools then every theory of every people in the world that have a creation story should be taught as well.

If the point is NOT to promote Christianity (as is claimed by proponents of Creationism) then there should be no problem in doing this. My hunch...the reverend Faldwell and the rest would have a TREMENDOUS problem with children of faiths other than Abrahamic ones sharing the creation stories of their religions.

And for the person that stated that Creationists welcomed the "competition" of other stories from other faiths, the very last thing that I want to see is a child being told by their teacher that their faith is the "wrong answer". That my friend is a truly vile thought and the very reason that RELIGION has no place in the classroom. It should be that if one religion deserves recognition then ALL religions do. If there is a problem with that then its better that RELIGION be taught at home or in church.

2007-02-13 06:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by jennette h 4 · 2 0

I would have no problems with that if it got the idea that it is still a possibility into the schools. Only teaching evolution is indoctrinating children just as bad as churches teaching their view of Creation. Indoctrination is the whole problem people have with teaching religions to children isn't it? If there are more than one possibility, it should be taught (or at least mentioned) in a learning environment until science is concluded on one theory. If science were always closed minded about these things, we would still think that the world was flat, and that the earth was the center of the solar system.

2007-02-13 05:50:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Teach all the creation stories in school, not just those mainstream with the Anglo culture, and in your science classes, tell students that it's "just" science instead of teaching it as THE definitive one way to look at creation.

I dare you.

2007-02-13 05:52:16 · answer #4 · answered by What I Say 3 · 0 1

Nope. Only the one true creation story. The one where Brahma grows out of Vishnu's navel and creates the world.

2007-02-13 05:43:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6 1

No!

That is not what us creationists want.

What we want is a universal teaching that God created everything.

No Christianity or Muslim or whatever.

Let kids hear both evolution and creationism and let them makeup their own minds.

There is a difference between teaching a christian god created everything and a universal god created everything.

You are also forgetting that this is taught as a theory and not fact like evolution.

People who try to ban or censor creationism and evolution scare me because in china you have the "thought police" who will throw your *** in jail for saying one word about Jesus.

Really, I value our freedom to teach both theories.

For the thought police are slowly turning our United States into a China.

God Bless

2007-02-13 05:54:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 5

The version of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the most significative.

Ramen !

2007-02-13 06:46:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

none of these should be present in a science class, science is about teaching what is know to the most correct and factual

2007-02-13 05:47:45 · answer #8 · answered by Nick F 6 · 3 0

Yes. I would suggest that teachers who are required to teach creation do just that.

2007-02-13 05:42:46 · answer #9 · answered by October 7 · 5 1

They can teach all those stories--in world mythology or literature or comparative religions courses. But they aren't science and shouldn't be in the science classroom.

2007-02-13 05:43:35 · answer #10 · answered by N 6 · 6 1

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