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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 Old Peculier on -
So demonstrate creation.
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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 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 Old Peculier on
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Oh, come off it! People hav e been looking for the ark for decades, if not centuries, and every decade or so some bunch of fundy nutburgers publishes a photo of something half-way up My Ararat which could, if you use a lot of imagination and really want to believe that it's the ark, look vaguely boat-shaped. None of them ever stand up to sc rutiny. Anyway, a wooden boat, abandoned on a mountainside, would have rotted away long ago.
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Permalink Reply by Old Peculier on
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" half-way up My Ararat "? Oo-er missus! What I meant, of course, was "...Mt Ararat".
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Permalink Reply by Janice Moorcroft on -
ROFL Doc...it sounds painful, can you get cream for it?
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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 Old Peculier on
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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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