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A bit of a grab-bag of opinions here, but allow me to cherry-pick:ah but i think your missing the point a willingness to change ones belief dosnt make them open minded it only shows a lack of conviction in said beliefs
it would take something rather drastic to change my beleifs but i would never try to eliiminate someone elses right to have or to share there differing beliefs
christans and other creationists for example never fight to remove evolotion techings from school they only fight to have there beliefs taught as a possiblilty as well
yet evolutionists actively fight to keep creationism from being taught as a possiblity
if you view it from an external perspective both are in essence unproveable yet widely beleived theories on how life was created on earth
in the case of christianity its even been around far longer then the theory of evolution
so why is one theory allowed to be taught and the other not ?
its the height of hypocracy
in the end its blind closed mindedness and a desire to silence opposing viewpoints that leads to this behaivor
centuires ago it was the religious groups taht saught to silence science now the science groups seek to silence religion
it was horrificaly wrong when the religous groups tried to silence science and its equaly wrong today for the scientific groups to repeat the same mistakes
That's exactly what 'open-minded' means..a willingness to change ones belief dosnt make them open minded..
In the US there is a constitutional obligation to keep state and religion separate. I'm not an American, but I assume what you say applies to state schools and that private religious schools can teach what and how they like. As far as I'm aware the argument is only about the content of science courses and that nobody is fighting to stop creationism being taught in R.E...they only fight to have there beliefs taught as a possiblilty as well ...evolutionists actively fight to keep creationism from being taught as a possiblity ...
Creationism is not science. Simple as. So don't teach in science class just as the theory of evolution should not be taught in R.E. [Btw evolution is a THEORY not a BELIEF - important difference there - I believe it to be a fine theory but I don't believe IN IT. I would ditch it tomorrow if a better theory came along, and I don't pray to Darwin either]. If you want creation myths to be part of science courses then you'd better accept that your scientists will be the worst in the world, because there are literally hundreds of them and there would not be very much time to teach what people generally call, um... you know... SCIENCE.
Of course, if you only want one (yours) taught and the rest suppressed, well, who's calling the kettle black now?
Ooops, careful.... the Jews can trump you on that one. On that logic, the earth must be flat after all.in the case of christianity its even been around far longer then the theory of evolution
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