Say that the government is going to add creationism to school's curriculum. But what culture's creationism...

Question

...story do they select for you to teach and learn about?

you misunderstand. Adam and Eve is just Christianity's creationism story. There are hundreds. If you teach them all...doesn't that make them a little less believable?

Answer 1

So many people are confusing biblical creationism with intelligent design. "Intelligent Design is the study of patterns in nature that are best explained as the result of intelligence" (Dr. William Dembski). That's it; it says nothing of who the creator is and how he/she/it/they did it. Intelligent Design encompasses every "creation" story.

I have found that most Christians I know don't want biblical creationism taught in science classes anyway. What we want is for molecules-to-man evolution to be taught with all its warts (they are not even allowed to present evidence that would put evolution in a poor light).

And we want intelligent design to at least to be presented (that is science). Reliable methods for detecting design exist and are employed in forensics, archeology, and data fraud analysis. These methods can easily be employed to detect design in biological systems.

When being interviewed by Tavis Smiley, Dr. Stephen Meyer said, “There are developments in some technical fields, complexity and information sciences, that actually enable us to distinguish the results of intelligence as a cause from natural processes. When we run those modes of analysis on the information in DNA, they kick out the answer, ‘Yeah, this was intelligently designed’ . . . There is actually a science of design detection and when you analyze life through the filters of that science, it shows that life was intelligently designed.”

I agree with George Bush, "Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about . . . Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.”

Good science teaching should include controversies!

Answer 2

There is no scientific basis to creationism. Whether you believe evolution is true or not, there is evidence and it makes sense in our perceived world.

I don't reject the idea of a class that teaches everything except on the basis of the pure QUANTITY of knowledge. Do you realize how many beliefs you'd have to teach? Besides, why do people have to be limited to certain religions? People will ultimately believe what they want, including things that don't really fit into any religion. Are you going to teach about every POSSIBLE belief, then? No. Absurd.

Answer 3

They need to keep "creationism" completely out of schools-period. I've stated in here before that it would be ok as an English Literature course, but ideally, they should keep it out of the schools altogether. It would be just one more excuse for violence between opposing "religious" factions in the hallways, the cafeteria, the parking lot, etc. And then it gets really stupid when the "parents" show up with guns and baseball bats-the whole thing, the whole idea is just stupid. Keep your religious learning in your home, church, temple, synagogue, mosque, where ever. Why the hell are so many people wanting to act stupid? It's like using a lit match to see how full your gas tank is. Just unbelieveably stupid.

Answer 4

interior the USA of a separation of Church and state is a considered necessary concept - there are too many faiths to offer anybody equivalent time. in basic terms in the Christian community, Catholics and Protestant communities do no longer agree on all Biblical interpretations. So whose view of creationism/non secular concept could reign preferrred interior the conventional public college college room? the suited place for little ones to verify faith is interior the domicile, interior of places of worship, interior the very own college sphere in step with parental approval being given previous to time. interior of a social analyze classification which surveys all religions of a particular term to punctuate historic activities or explains modern activities, ok. Societal structures which contain non secular constructs motivate particular activities which effect anybody. the subject hinges on a "actuality in advertising" concept that the subject be counted "creationism" must be woven right into a needless to say marked qualitative classification on worldwide cultures, historic past and the effect of world religions, or non secular analyze yet no longer as a quantitative science direction. As a Catholic, i can not envision any different way of offering up this variety of curriculum. Evolution is a concept with super gaps. Creationism can extremely include evolutionary concept yet little ones ought to study how such issues overlap in the relatives environment if mothers and fathers so p.c.. people who prefer such overlapping in a college room ought to seek for out inner maximum non secular faculties and pay their very own money for this variety of curriculum - or in basic terms place self assurance in Sunday college instructions to offer the overlapping rationalization.

Answer 5

Well, they would have to create a class specifically for this purpose. Since there is no scientific basis for creationism, they could not teach it in science classes. Therefore, they would not be limited and could teach as many stories and versions as they could get around to teaching.

Answer 6

Excellent point.

If Christian creationism is taught, then certainly equal time should be given to other religious creation beliefs.

Hindu, Native American, Buddhist, Wiccan, Zoroastrian, etc. all have the same claim to the "true" version of creation as the Christian community which, obviously, has the same claim to "truth" as Darwinian evolution.

Answer 7

"The Frantics" had a great skit about this on their old radio show, where a class room had to sit through 3 or 4 different people give their religion's creation story.

Personally, I like the Babylonian one the most. It's brutal. The "fall from grace" Eden story has got nothing on that one.

Answer 8

I think they should teach all the creation beliefs. No one was here when it was made, so who knows how it started? Children should be presented with all the available options and be allowed to choose for themselves, not have the theory of evolution forced onto them as if it were true and not the theory that it is.

Answer 9

they should present different viewpoints and the scientific evidence (if any) for each. evolution should be presented as the theory it is, not as ultimate truth about how the world began.

Answer 10

I like the second one. And can we include in the lesson that God must have had helpers since he said "let us create humankind in OUR image..."