Don't you think teaching Evolution in science class destroys children's faith in the word of God?

Answer 1

I don't think so. I looked in a Biology textbook recently and I saw nothing that would affect faith in God.

Answer 2

No. Believe it or not, I believe in both God and evolution. Even if humans and life itself evolved from a small speck of matter or whatever the scientific term for it may be, it still doesn't explain what put that speck there in the first place. Hence the need for a God, or at least a higher being. I do feel that if they are going to teach evolution in schools that creationism should be taught as well, but probably not for the reason a more religious person would come up with. I think it's a great idea that a child should be able to hear both sides and decide for his/her self what to believe in.

Answer 3

Sorry, yet evolution isn't depending on the concept that there is not any God. i'm no atheist. yet evolution makes acceptable experience to me, as does the information for it. you've fallen for a really effortless Creationist trick. fairly, technological information ... all of it ... Is the act of attempting to describe issues with out invoking the supernatural. lets say that planets orbit the solar because it really is God's will. yet somewhat we flow further and are available up with a naturalistic clarification that announces that a similar rigidity that motives an apple to fall to the floor, also motives tides to upward push and planets to orbit. there is no longer something in the perception of gravity that announces that "there is not any God." yet we placed aside any assumptions about God when we do technological information. Evolution is not any more advantageous and no a lot less atheistic than the perception of gravity. those who allow you to be conscious of it really is, do not in simple terms hate evolution ... they hate *technological information*. a similar argument used adverse to evolution also attacks all of technological information. all of it.

Answer 4

No. I was taught it in school and because I was brought up going to church it didn't do a thing to destroy my faith. It did make me question the science teacher alot. And if it was true, there wouldn't be monkeys still here would there? They'd all be humans! It really has NO scientific basis in reality. I say go ahead and teach it all in schools but if they are going to, then there should be religion classes too! Everyone wants to add all this scientific mumbo jumbo and that's fine as long as it's balanced. If they are going to try to mislead children with theories, then balance it with truth.

Answer 5

It doesn't have to. Science isn't at odds with religion, American Christians and certain fundies from other countries take issue because the Church has spent so long fighting the advancement of knowledge that to allow belief in God to evolve with science means admitting that they may have been wrong and may be wrong. Admitting that would mean nothing to belief, only to how the Church treats other cultures and bring an end to missionary work. There are ways to bring God into a child's life without forcing science out of it.

Answer 6

I think that children who learn about biology, geology, chemistry, paleontology, and the other scientific disciplines that are ALL a part of evolutionary theory, that their ideas about God will be FAR bigger than those of their parents who point them to the creation story in their holy book.

And I think that's all to the good.


Seriously, people, watch 'Origins: Nova" online here (the truth about the cosmos is SO MUCH more awesome and wonderful than any creation story any people have ever come up with!)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/

Answer 7

Evolution is a theory only. Even most evolutionary scientists don't believe it. But to state otherwise they would have to attribute our being here to a higher being. That is something they will never do.

Here is a so called fact of evolution:

one asks another, how do you know that fossil is 4 billion years old?

answer: well, it was found in strata that is 4 billion years old.

Question: how do you know the strata is 4 billion years old?

Answer: Because this fossil found in this strata is 4 billion years old.

That was an actual conversation on PBS

Answer 8

no, I don't think so, not if the folks at home and at church are doing their job. Don't get me wrong, I am against teaching evolution at all because it is a lie and I know that because I know the truth. But give God and His Word some credit for being strong enough to handle the winds and storms that come from the enemy.There is no plan the can succeed against the Lord!

Answer 9

Evolution is not based on fact, it is a theory and nearly every aspect of it i made up of maybes and possiblys etc. It should be continued to be taught as a theory only, and the opposite view - christian science needs to be taught also.

Answer 10

There’s no reason why it should.

However, I think discussions of Faith are best left up to ministers, Sunday school teachers and parents. Do you really want a teacher who is perhaps an atheist talking to your child about God?

Just let them teach the most accepted scientific theories and leave discussions of Faith to parents and church.

When I was a teen and pulled away from the church (a fundamentalist church) it had nothing to do with anything I learned in school. It had everything to do with the hypocrisy and bigotry that I witnessed in the church. It seems strange to me that some of the same churches that are demanding creationism in school are themselves responsible for driving away young people who can no longer stomach their teachings of hate.