On 8/22/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The religion needs to be a required class alongside of science. I > wholeheartedly believe that creationism is bunk, but I can't disprove > it and I can't tell a christian that they must learn my way only....
I think a religious studies class should be required...where you learn the different theologies of the various world religions...compare and contrast their creation stories, etc etc. That is valuable information, especially in today's society. As for that last sentence, you are half right. You can't prove or disprove creationism, so yeah, you can't tell them they must learn it one way or the other. All you CAN require they learn, is that which you CAN prove....which is, in a word, evolution. If you want to separate it out into science and religion that's fine. > In the end, science is my religion because I'm not able to do all of > these calculations myself and trust scientists to tell me what they > observe in their experiments. So in a way I'm putting my "faith" in > scientists. It's not a matter of want....it's a matter of MUST. You simply cannot teach religion as a science. As for the "faith in scientists" argument, why can't you do the calculations yourself? Evolution is not a difficult concept, nor is it hard to observe and judge the evidence in it's favor. We did electrophlorisis (hope i spelled that right, been a long time) experiments in HIGH SCHOOL that yielded awesome, real world results that were in support evolution. This stuff isn't faith...it's observable, repeatable, and predictable....the definition of "science". On 8/22/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fine, as long as it is taught in religion class and not in science > class, > > and it is elective and not required. > > > > On 8/22/06, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I think that all points of view should be presented in school. That's > > > going to be the only way that "christians" won't feel persecuted. > > > Think about it.....if a whole section of class were devoted to > > > teaching each religion's creation story along with evolution, I don't > > > think it would be long before "christians" would be calling for > > > religion to be pulled out of the public school. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > --------------- > > Robert Munn > > www.funkymojo.com > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213871 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
