Is this really what you want to teach our children?

Question

Are they seriously teaching this as fact in some US schools?
GE 1:3-5, 14-19 There was light ("night and day") before there was a sun.
GE 1:12, 16 Plants began to grow before there was sunlight.
GE 3:1-5 The serpent speaks human language (presumably Hebrew).
GE 3:14 The serpent eats dust for the rest of his life (by command of God).
GE 4:17 Cain builds and populates a whole city in only two generations.
GE 32:24-30 God takes part in a wrestling match. He wins by injuring Jacob's hip.
EX 4:24 The Lord sought to kill Moses (one of his own prophets.)
And this makes more sense than evolution?

Just to note evolution is considered the unifying theory of all biology and to date the only unifying theory of science. The first theory of mankind that can explain an entire subject in one line. Pretty factual to my mind.

Answer 1

Oh, and you're just scratching the surface of the fundamentalist insanities....

Answer 2

i dont know if u did do good research but here is some
a) in the Bible ur info for Gen 4:17, 32:24-30 and Ex. 4 :24 is not stated.
b) obviously there was sunlight because it says that in 1:3-5 that God created night and day which includes the sunlight.
c) if u read the Bible u would also know that the serpent was just a form of Satan.
d) lastly the serpent did have to eat dust the rest of his life we see this even today with the slithering snake.

Answer 3

Well, given that God is omnipotent I think that means He can do anything He wants. Nothing on your list seems impossible for an omnipotent being. Nevertheless, if everyone took everything in those stories literally they would be missing the entire point, and the author would have failed in his purpose.

If you're going to quote a book with a 2,000 year old context and history, written in a language that no one speaks today, you might start by figuring out how people back then would have understood these stories. Applying a contemporary method of understanding to a book like that is nothing short of completely ludicrous.

Answer 4

The key here is in your last line. What makes MORE sense. As both creationism/intelligent design and evolution are still (and probably always will be) theories, they should be taught as such. To disclaim either theory would be a claim of omniscience that a fool might find appealing. Other theories being taught as fact: plate tectonics, superiority of democracy, gravity, relativity, cell theory, global warming. There are countless theories in academia and they are likely the most important subjects of study. I mean if its past the stage of "theory", why bother learning about it? Evolution is such a tense subject because it seems so difficult to reconcile with teachings of the Bible.

Answer 5

Though the wrestling makes things sound a little more interesting, i understand where you're coming from, though. However, there are a few contradictions and unexplained things in evolution as well. I personally believe that evolution makes more sense, but when it all comes down to the beginning, something came out of nothing, and then there was the world as we know it. It all depends on what you want to believe.

Answer 6

I've never heard of them teaching that in any u.s. school that was not a private christian school. The public school system is not allowed to teach go into depth about stories in the Bible. The closest that's ever been taught to me is my teacher mentioning in Biology class the creationism was a theory on how the world came to be (he also mentioned the theory of aliens, but we only learned about evolution).

Answer 7

"Are they seriously teaching this as fact in some US schools?"

No, they are not. There are legal requirements to teach certain things to children in schools, both public and private. In the private schools they can learn about these things in religion class, but they still must learn fundamental and mandatory subject matter (none of which is religious). In public schools, no religious subject matter is taught. If it cannot be supported by empirical evidence is cannot be considered in the subject of science in public schools.

Just let it go.

Answer 8

Can I add to the list?
"Thy shall not covet thy neighbor's wife" doesn't apply to God himself. After all Mary was married to Joseph, was she not? And that whole immaculate conception. I ain't buying that.

Noah and the Ark. What did he do with all the poo poo from those animals and how did he feed them? And why in the sam hell did God flood the earth and kill his own people anyway? Was it like an Etch A Sketch, he said "Damn! I screwed up" and then erased it?

Talking snakes? Didn't the snake talk Eve into taking a bite of the forbidden apple? And if the apple caused so much chaos, why can I buy a variety of them in the supermarket?

How about that woman who was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back at, what was it, a burning city? COME ON NOW! Even Criss Angel can't do that!

I could go on for another half hour but there are so many more religion nquestions I want to answer and I don't want to stay up all night.

Good question, by the way, here's a star for you!

Answer 9

As a Pagan, if I ever have toddlers, I intend to teach them approximately Nature and how we are only as plenty a factor of it as a plant or the solar or the moon. i'll teach them that the Earth is our mom and that each and every little thing is alive and has spirit. i'll enable them to comprehend that faeries exist and that they might refer to the timber. i'll tell them that the animals are our brothers and sisters and that they deserve our admire. they're going to learn that they seem to be a relfection of the Universe and that all and sundry it extremely is expertise is interior them. they gained't be referred to in any faith yet interior the character faith that, i think of, is carefully healthful and logical.

Answer 10

The Bible is a moral book and to make the ancient people to accept it, God put sth very weird in it, especially in the OT, but it doesn't mean we morden today Christians should either accept it as what it is, or reject it. We should, instead, look into the real meaning between the lines and again, I'd like to remind you the Bible was not wrriten yesterday, and it was not wrritten as a science book.

Answer 11

well if its a catholic school, the bible IS the curriculum... but in pulic schools its very different. as parents we have the respondsibiliy to choose what school is right for our children, america is built on the right to think and believe how we think we should. if parents send heir children there, then the schools wll thrive, if not they will die out.