and creationism is placed in schools, how will the government choose which version is taught to the students?
2007-10-12 08:05:09 · 7 answers · asked by getalifeFATTY 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
all would theoretically be taught, but to teach all of them would probably take a year of studying...wasted year of school...
1,001 worthless stories to keep you occupied for a year
here is a list of thousands of deities, i'm sure most of them have their own version of creationism...not just 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deities
2007-10-12 08:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, shall they teach the Popul Vuh? The extraterrestrial engineering from the Sumerians? Shall they teach the Bumba Myth? But what about the Spider Woman myth? So many to choose from...
Oh and the crab man at the top got the "whale" evolution backwards. The bone he is talking about is what modern scientists call a Vestigial Structure.
Many animals have these structures. Blind Mole Rats have useless layers of skin covering their eyes which suggest they may have had a common bat-like ancestor. Many flightless birds with wings(involving feathers), like the Cassowary and Ostrich. Even humans have some of these vestigial structures. For example we have Erector Pili, which are the muscle fibers in the hair follicles which make our hair stand on end. The use for this is to make our appearance seem larger than it really is to scare off predators. But why do we have this when we don't have a thick layer of fur? Why do we have a coccyx? Why does this tailbone of ours sometimes cause a deformation in children by the being born with tails? Because its a remnant of when our ancestors were learning how to walk upright and it soon became useless.
2007-10-12 15:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by tribute_13 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What? Separation of church and state should mean that not one version of creationism be taught in schools. Am I missing something here?
2007-10-12 15:09:06 · answer #3 · answered by Future 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suggest we tell the Story of Prometheus and the origin of humanity and fire in science classes. If Genesis gets time, I want some too.
2007-10-12 15:11:59 · answer #4 · answered by Link strikes back 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are ten versions actually, not thousands and it will be up to textbook writers which they use.
Now how a scientist textbook writer will distinguish which brand of hogwash to propogate, that I do not know. I would personally choose the flat Earth group. It should be easy for children to identify the fallacies and move on.
2007-10-12 15:07:58 · answer #5 · answered by OPM 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
There are not thousands, only one. Evolution comes in different flavors.
2007-10-12 15:13:01 · answer #6 · answered by joefizx 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Same way they decide which version of evolution to teach, I suppose.
Did you know that some textbooks still teach kids that whale sex organs are actually devolving hip bones from when they were "cow like creatures"??
2007-10-12 15:07:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋