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Who really cares?

So much time is wasted arguing about how we got here, who put us here and why... meanwhile we're killing each other, screwing up the environment and polluting the airwaves with divisive idiocy like whether "ho ho ho" is offensive or if "Christmas" is too religious a word for December the 25th.

Science teachers should teach Science. Priests should teach Religion. Then it should be left up to students who to believe and what to do with that information.

Why are we having culture wars about what we can and can not be taught, and what we should be told we need to believe? O-o; We should be taught everything that our teachers believe to be true and relevant to the subject at hand... be those teachers religious or academic. And information that contradicts those views shouldn't be hidden from us simply because it doesn't support what they want us to believe.

That means, religious leaders shouldn't be denying evidence for evolution and that evolution proponents shouldn't balk at questions about gaps in the fossil record or how "something comes from nothing"...

They should be debating it openly, maturely and in full view of students on both sides.

Both sides need to be willing to be proven wrong on points and adapt their views in the event that they are... something we've been taught is a sign of weakness and "flip-flopping" but is really an incredibly basic function of common sense.

I don't support teaching Creationism in public school Science classrooms. Because creationism isn't backed by a great deal of actual physical evidence at this point, nor is it universal to every religion. Requiring it be taught in detail in schools creates a situation in which one religion is being given a pulpit to disperse ideology and the others are not. If you teach Christian creation, why not Hopi? Mayan? Hindu? Buddhist? Shinto? Ancient Greek? Egyptian?

There are incredibly valueable places for all of these creation stories: in Literature, History and Theology classes... and at Sunday School.

There are better arguments we could be having about religion in our cirriculum! English teachers in quite a few public schools are forbidden to teach the Bible (due to it's religious importance) -- in spite of it being the source of thousands of quotations, titles, cliches, sayings and themes that reappear in Western literature time and time again.

Considering it's incredible influence on Western and Middle Eastern culture: that seems pretty idiotic to me O-o; ...Definately one of the more tragic bits of "collateral damage" in the secularization of the school system.

We worry too much about what everyone else believes.

If Christians want to teach their children that evolution is bunk and God created the world in 7 days. That's fine. I don't think that affects much of anything personality-wise, morality-wise or in terms of relevant world history O-o;

We will never know for sure how everything came to be.

Why do we need to?

I don't really get it ^^;

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