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Should Creation Theory be Taught in Schools Alongside Evolution?
Just spotted this on Premire 10:
Creationism should be taught at schools
There are calls for creationism to be taught at schools.
Revd Prof Michael Reiss says teachers should be able to answer questions on it without ridiculing a child's beliefs while still explaining evolution and the Big Bang theory.
If for instance in an Islamic faith school, it was taught that Mohamed was a fictional character that had never existed (as may happen if the government get their way to standardise the content of curricula) do you think that Moslem parents would take it laying down?
Why then do we insist that evolution is taught as fact, which effectively says that God does not exist. Should then, parents who are Christians have a say in what subjects, that affect the child’s faith, their child should be taught or in what way they are taught (e.g. that evolution is just a theory).
Creationism should be taught at schools
There are calls for creationism to be taught at schools.
Revd Prof Michael Reiss says teachers should be able to answer questions on it without ridiculing a child's beliefs while still explaining evolution and the Big Bang theory.
If for instance in an Islamic faith school, it was taught that Mohamed was a fictional character that had never existed (as may happen if the government get their way to standardise the content of curricula) do you think that Moslem parents would take it laying down?
Why then do we insist that evolution is taught as fact, which effectively says that God does not exist. Should then, parents who are Christians have a say in what subjects, that affect the child’s faith, their child should be taught or in what way they are taught (e.g. that evolution is just a theory).
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Permalink Reply by Ploughboy on -
Stephen
I am not God. But we do have God's description of His work in Creation. That is far more than we have of Evolution
Martin
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Permalink Reply by Peter Henderson on -
So demonstrate creation.
Martin has neither evidence for a 6,000 year old Earth/Universe, 6/24hr. creation, or a global flood Stephen. So far he has failed to provide me with one peer reviewed science paper to back up his claims.
Not surprising really:
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/gstory.htm
"From your oil industry experience, did any fact that you were taught at ICR, which challenged current geological thinking, turn out in the long run to be true? ,"
That is a very simple question. One man, Steve Robertson, who worked for Shell grew real silent on the phone, sighed and softly said 'No!' A very close friend that I had hired at Arco, after hearing the question, exclaimed, "Wait a minute. There has to be one!" But he could not name one. I can not name one. No one else could either. One man I could not reach, to ask that question, had a crisis of faith about two years after coming into the oil industry. I do not know what his spiritual state is now but he was in bad shape the last time I talked to him.
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Permalink Reply by phil stilliard on -
The flood was about 2900 bc, the first evidence written about it in 2600 - 2500 bc has been found by archaeologists, The ark has been found on Mt Ararat.
So far all archaeological evidence concurs with the Bible. Nothing has been found which contradicts it.
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Permalink Reply by Lee on -
Hi Phil,
Floods happen all the time - what was so special about the one written in the Bible?
Was it really a global flood - then you have a lot of explaining to do.
As for finding the ark - are you sure?
No contradictions? How about life on Earth as we see it today :-)
Oh, and what do you know about rainbows? Did they happen before the Flood, or only afterwards as the Bible seems to claim
Lee
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Permalink Reply by Ploughboy on
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Lee
Would you like to explain how a flood that covers mountains could be a local flood.
Martin
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Permalink Reply by Ploughboy on
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Phil
None of the reports I've seen on the discovery of the Ark have been conclusive.
Martin
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Permalink Reply by Ploughboy on
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Milverton
It would be more correct to describe Evolution and the Big Bang as hypothesis. They are ideas that are fundamentally unprovable, relating to events in the past that cannot be observed or tested.
Martin
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Permalink Reply by Doctor Prunesquallor on -
No it most emphatically should not. It isn't science, it's superstition. It isn't even good Christianity. People who think that a story about magic fruit and talking animals is literally true do not deserve to be taken seriously.
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Permalink Reply by Michael on -
But just imagine two things;
Noah mucking out the ark
Woodworm making the ark unseaworthy
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Permalink Reply by Doctor Prunesquallor on
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Good points! :)
Actually, the problem of what Noah did with all the - er - by-products is not only amusing, it's a serious problem. It couldn't've been done.
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Permalink Reply by Dr. Derek P. Blake on
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Permalink Reply by Doctor Prunesquallor on
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Well, I have now. Unfortunately, and I'm sure the fault is with my sense of humour rather than with Mr Cosby, I've always found him about as funny as a wet weekend in Barnsley. Sorry.
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