If Creationism/ID is taught in schools then does that put god under the microscope ?

Question

Let's say that we agreed to teach Creationism/ID in the science classroom. Creationism/ID are primarily Christian "theories". Ok. So won't that put God and Jesus and the book of Genesis under the scrutiny of experimentation and evidence and peer review and repeatable perdictions. And won't it mean that, like all scientific theories, we would be attempting to disprove the "theory" and enhance it with new and better theories?

So - if you are religious - is that what you would really want ?

Hi Justin - I am not worried about this. I am just trying to point out that teaching a religious concept as science might have implications that religious people would not like to see happen.

Answer 1

Oh lawd... have you seen some of the answers you've provoked? These people are nuts, you'll never get anything decent from them...

Answer 2

The microscope would have to be bigger than God, and so would you. Therefore, if ever you succeeded in this, you would find that you had not put God under a microscope as both microscope & examiner would be greater than God - therefore whatever you had there would not be God.

Answer 3

Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church.

Religious belief cannot hold up under scientific theory or any kind of experiment because it is a belief and is therefore not a science. Where are the studies? Where are the scientific experiments. There are none, because its impossible. Its like comparing apples to imaginary oranges.

Answer 4

It is pathetic to watch the proponents of creationism and ID struggling to establish something which has no credible basis. These have no place in the classroom let alone in science classes as they have no scientific content. Genesis is a creation myth so are creationism and ID

Answer 5

I think that's really the reason it's not investigated more - no matter how much time anybody investigates the claims of ID, the results, the answers must comport with the creation myth. It's like doing the NY Times crossword after your five year old has filled in half the squares with random characters. No matter how you shoehorn in the answers it will not be satisfying, nor elegant, nor beautiful.

Answer 6

In the first place this is not a scientific theory and would have to taught under a different subject heading as religion or philosophy .

Answer 7

First of all, Creationism is not only a Christian "theory" but also a Muslim "theory".
Aren't all scientific discoveries labeled as a theory as well?
Why? Because what is now considered scientific "truth" could be disproven a few years down the road by a newer discovery.
Even Jesus "believed" in the creation story, and quoted to the religious leaders about God's decree on marriage which is first mentioned in Genesis 2:24.

I would say, "Yes, let God be proven non-existent", isn't that what all atheistic science is TRYING to do anyway?

And what does God do in the mean time? HE LAUGHS at man's futile efforts to discredit Him.
"Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings (and the scientists?) of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One."Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."
The ONE ENTHRONED IN HEAVEN LAUGHS; the Lord scoffs at them.Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath". Psalm 2:1-5

One hurricane, one earthquake, one tsunami are enough to show us how helpless we really are.

Thanks, Alan, for leaving the question open to give me an opportunity to answer it.

Answer 8

Creationism is not a theory and therefore has no place in the schools. Here is the definition of a theory:

n. pl. the·o·ry
1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena

Answer 9

There's nothing to put under the microscope. You don't catch God in the wild, study him for a few weeks, tag him and release him. There's nothing to see.

But yeah, it would greatly increase the scrutiny with which we examine the CONCEPT.

Answer 10

Bible-based Creation is being taught now and has been for several years in the Duval County, FL public schools as an alternative to evolution theory.
This was according to mandate by elected school board officials who, after all, are the people who should decide what is taught in local schools.
God and the Bible can withstand any and all scrutiny given it by laymen and intellectuals alike. Many highly intelligent scientists and educators have attempted to fault the Bible, and then upon serious study came to find it true after all.
The Bible is very old, but so is our sun, and yet as our sun continues to warm and give life to the earth, so the Bible continues to stand on its own as perfect truth.
So bring on the skeptics, the intellectuals, and the scoffers.
The Bible is the word of Almighty God, Who is Creator of the entire universe and everything in it. Therefore the Bible will prove out... let's get it on!

(I like your avatar pic of Mark Twain)