Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

POS Industries · 05-26-2007, 08:56 PM

Well, I've noted this in many other venues before, because it's something that typically goes unnoticed, but teaching the story of the creation in schools isn't actually banned. It's just that it's typically taught in most 10th grade World History classes to look at Christianity and Judaism from a social development standpoint along with every other major religion on the planet. The reason that it's not taught along side the evolution theory is because it doesn't have any basis in biology, which evolution not only does but teaching it necessary to set the groundwork for more advanced chapters in the textbook. Start from the ground up, essentially.

Without evolutionary theory, there's no way to commonly link all life on the planet, which causes issue in teaching why there are so many commonalities between different species. I mean, you can't even start at single-celled life and determine the development between prokaryotic and eukaryotic species other than, "God decided that some would have nuclei and others wouldn't".

05-26-2007, 08:56 PM	#10
POS Industries Argus Agony Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Gotta go fishing! Posts: 10,483	Well, I've noted this in many other venues before, because it's something that typically goes unnoticed, but teaching the story of the creation in schools isn't actually banned. It's just that it's typically taught in most 10th grade World History classes to look at Christianity and Judaism from a social development standpoint along with every other major religion on the planet. The reason that it's not taught along side the evolution theory is because it doesn't have any basis in biology, which evolution not only does but teaching it necessary to set the groundwork for more advanced chapters in the textbook. Start from the ground up, essentially. Without evolutionary theory, there's no way to commonly link all life on the planet, which causes issue in teaching why there are so many commonalities between different species. I mean, you can't even start at single-celled life and determine the development between prokaryotic and eukaryotic species other than, "God decided that some would have nuclei and others wouldn't". __________________ Either you're dead or my watch has stopped.