do you belive evelution should be tought in school?

Question

if you think this why is that ok and not christanity why do we have to hide GOD from everyone and tallk about monkeys is it me or is it really rediculus

Answer 1

no because it offends the Christians and man didn't evolve from an ape

Answer 2

Evelution? Really don't know. Evolution? Sure, biology is an important part of science, at least the basic concepts should be though in schools, the essencial if the student decides to pursue that carrier later in life.

Why not christianity you say? Why not Muslim, Pastafarianism or Judaism? I'm not against it as a mythology, but not taught as a fact but a belief, creationism is not science. Teaching that is lying to the children.

Answer 3

Because not everyone believes in God. Those that do, do not necessarily believe in the same God. Those that believe in the same God may have different ideas about what God wants, how to worship Him, the best way to serve Him...etc. If you want your kids to be taught about God in school, send them to a private religious school, or home school them.

I absolutely think evolution should be taught in schools. It is the foundation for many different scientific fields, and without a solid knowledge of evolution, our students will fall behind science students from other countries. Before you know it, people won't even know how to spell "evolution." Oh...sorry.

Answer 4

Evolution does not say humans come from monkeys.

Evolution is an observed, replicated, verified, established empirical and scientific FACT. It is the cornerstone of biology. It is the most powerful general explanatory model in all of science. Without it, every life science collapses and all biological knowledge is false. This includes medical science, so Creationists, as well as everyone, who submit to the care of a modern physician are placing their health and lives in the hands of Practitioners of Evolutionary Theory.

Answer 5

Unless you're talking about a specifically religious school, religious education does not belong there. If we decided to teach Christianity in the public schools, what would we do with the Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, and Pastafarians that have to go there? Do they each get their own classes? Or do we simply kick them out the door? (Well, the Pastafarians might enjoy that, but you get the point I hope.)

Evolution is taught in schools because it qualifies as a scientific theory - not to mention that most of modern biology is based on it, as I understand it. Although I believe Christianity to be true, it does not qualify as science. This is why I teach math and physics in school during the week and Christianity in Sunday school and, occasionally, on Wednesday nights. To every thing, there is a season and, I might add, a place.

Answer 6

Quite simply--evolution, the big bang--are examples of theories developed by observation via the scientific method. The classes these theories are discussed in are science classes. Creationism is a philosophy or religious viewpoint and is unsubstantiated by simple observation. It belongs in a religion or philosophy class. To put creationsim in a science class makes about as much sense as teaching kids the process of mutiplication in math class and including Plato's Republic in the instruction. Does nothing but confuse the student.

Answer 7

Evolution has nothing to do with religion at all. It is based on the current set of facts we have available to us.

God is about religion and forcing one type over another into schools is what we want to avoid.

It is unfortunate that evolution runs counter to what the bible teaches are the beginnings of man kind. If those idiots who wrote the bible had left out mans creation then we wouldn't even be having this issue.

Answer 8

I think if you teach one then you should teach both or none at all. It used to be no one taught evolution. It was only Creationism. Now it's Creationism that is outside and Evolution inside. I think you should teach both Creationism and Evolution that way people get the benefit of both and also have a religion class in public schools and prayer in public schools. This way the children learn about different religions as well as their own which would be fun in my opinion and would also be able to pray on time(Muslims have 5 set prayer times a day and two of those prayers or one depending on where you are) take place during school. It's not going to kill anyone if students pray 5 minutes every day. Your not even missing any real classwork.

Answer 9

ignore the ethnocentric people over there.
Americans usually think you are stupid just because you can't speak English well, when in fact the same Americans fail compared to other subjects like math and the sciences.

as for evolution,.
Read the book of genesis and you will notice that God did not command the animals to exist from nowhere.

In fact if you read genesis closer, you will notice that he commanded either the earth or the water to produce the animals..

Just like he can command the ground to produce the vegetation and command the vegetation to produce fruit.
Then the fruit did not come from nothingness but rather God used what already has been created to produce everything else.

I don't know how this will affect your faith but What I am showing you is that it does not have to conflict.

We have plenty of disagreements with the current American school system and the things they teach about the details of evolution, but that doesn't mean we have to believe it.
We can study it as much as they do and get a passing grade.
After that, nobody is demanding that you do anything about it.


Anyway I am a follower of Christ and it really doesn't bother me if people believe in evolution.
Frankly I enjoy talking to people who do believe in evolution just to clarify to them that it doesn't conflict with the bible.

I still believe that God was the cause for the existence of atoms.
Something that "MODERN SCIENCE" has only speculations.


Show Me How The Atom Evolved. From Nothing.

Answer 10

I think we should teach evolution in school, yes, because for one thing you can demonstrate some of its principles in a laboratory environment. See one example in the link below.

God could exist, sure, but we can't scrutinize it the way we can observable and reproducible natural phenomena (regardless of what is responsible for why it exists).

Therefore it seems more valuable to learn from what we can work with rather than try to learn only from assumptions we can make about God without having any tangible proof, nor the ability to demonstrate concepts and synthesize knowledge.

Answer 11

This is another candidate for a YA frequently asked questions section. Honestly mous_e you can't claim you didn't already know the answer to this.

It has evidence to support it that has survived scientific methodology so yes there is no reason evolution should not be in a science class.

Religion is perfectly fine in schools also. Just not in a science class because it has no evidence to support it that can survive scientific methodology. A comparative religions class would be fine.

It really is as simple as that. There is no conspiracy to keep religion out of schools. Kids can pray as much as they like as long as they're not disturbing class. There are religious clubs. However the school itself is not allowed to promote a particular religion. And that is good for everyone even Christians.