creation and education

[Sarah83]

Hello all!

Although I have posed this question to the 'creation and evolution' forum, I would also like to encourage some specific Christian views on this topic.

My question is; Can any school justify teaching creationism?

What do we think?

Thankyou for your time, Sarah x

 

[Smidlee]

I'm for one believe we need a miracles as big as creation to save the public school system. Public school is nothing but a scam to raise taxes (while most of the money never gets to the schools) with little in return. Then after taxing the people to death they dictated what you can and can't do. it's almost like "taxation without representation". So I believe trying to get creationism in schools it a waste of time since a few months later under a different judge and/or publician is would be reversed.

 

[Xaero]

my opinion is:

ET should be furthermore taught in school + voluntarily classes for creation.

I don't want to fight ET out of the school curriculum because knowledge about this issue is too important. Evolution scientists have tried to figure out several ways to explain life with methodological naturalism and therefore created complex structures of thought.
You have do know them if you want to make any purpose of refutation.

 

[JohnJones]

Why do we need anything about origins to be taught in public school?

Let students study that on their own. School should not be for teaching other people's kids any philosophical sect, religion, or recruiting them to any political affiliation [and evolution qualifies as all three]. School should be reading, writing, and arithmatic. Why don't high school students from America know how to take a derivative or integrate a function but students from other countries do? You want to know why? Because unlike other countries we waste all our time teaching students to be atheistic relativistic evolutionist antichristian homosexual democrats. That's a full-time job too! Where is any time left for learning Algebra and Calculus?

 

[Dracil]

Is this a joke?

How come this foreign student learned of evolution as well as all that other stuff you think is mutually exclusive to evolution?

Oh, and in response to the OP. A school can justify teaching creationism if it can justify teaching astrology, alchemy, and geocentrism along with it.

 

[mark kennedy]

Given the social, legal and political climate I don't think it would make sense to teach creationism in the public schools. While I am firmly convinced that it is a viable alternative to evolutionary biology and the single common ancestor myth it would never be objectivly presented. Think about it, for someone with a science degee from a secular university to teach creationism they would only teach what they have been taught. Having said that, I think the Intelligent Design is the best compromise on the table and should have its place in theories about our origins.

I personally don't want my theology held up to public ridicule because it was imposed on school boards and teachers that resent having to teach creationism. Don't get me wrong I am a dyed in the wool YEC fundamentalist and believe that evolution has no demonstrated mechanism for evolution from a single celled common ancestor. Creationism is a viable alternative and there is no reason why it should be excluded from discussions with regards to natural history and natural science. However, do we really want to subject young people to such a heated controversy while they are just begining to understand the world around them? I think they would remember more about the conflict then they would the substantive points of interest.

Eventually, I think there will have to be some kind of a watershed event that brings creationism into modern science. Right now all the Universities and research groups are dominated by materialistic evolution with no relief in sight. God is not going anywhere and we should not be supprised that the worldly wise reject the Bible and dismiss it as pseudo-science. They called the Lord Beelzebub how much more will they call those of his household! (see Matthew 10:25)

This has nothing to do with evidence, this is about the gospel and how it relates to natural history:

..." Because it ha been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given...'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have goown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them." (Matthew 13:11,14,15)