>This is not an indictment on Religion at all, actually. Religions are by
>their definition faith based, and as such are pretty much closed to much
>debate. You believe what you believe, its your faith, that forms your
>religion, which you are free to practice. Thats all hunky dory.
>
>But when your faith, which by definition may lack facts (which need to be
>rooted in science, by the way), enter the public education
>curriculum.....well thats when i get pissed.
>
>My child is sent to school to learn agreed upon scientific theories. We
>are free to discuss the validity of those theories (philosophize) back
>home. But NEVER should one's religious beliefs, which require no
>scientific backing, be taught to my child in a PUBLIC school science
>class. The idea of Intelligent Design being taught in a fact based science
>class is ludicrous.
Science is faith based as well. Scientific Laws are actually a result of
natural science within a world created by God. Of course the meaning has
changed now but the subtle nature of it hasn't. At current, there is
roughly about 50 scientific laws ( I think. Someone correct me if I'm
wrong). Everything else are hypotheses and theories which require faith as
well. I learned Netwon's Law of Gravity in physics class but I never
actually conducted a test to prove it myself.
There is a subtle difference between the faith used in religion and the
faith used in science though. The faith used in science is like having
faith that a friend will pick you up at the agreed upon time because in
every instance before he showed up at the time agreed upon. The faith in
religion is actually a lot more complicated. If you took calculus before
Einstein, the schools were teaching you untrue and incorrect information.
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