conversationpc wrote:
I never said evolution shouldn't be taught. All I'm asking for is a fair playing field.
Dave, I honestly can't believe that you don't understand the difference between teaching science and teaching belief. There is nothing to scientifically substantiate creation. Expecting people who don't believe in creation to allow it to be taught to their children is what's unfair. Teach your kids religion at home and in church because it has no place whatsoever in the curriculum of a public school.
Yes, there is plenty of evidence to point to the fact that Jesus and some other biblical figures actually existed. We also know that most of the places mentioned in the bible existed and many still do. None of that proves in any way that creation occurred as it is described in Genesis. In fact, the Garden of Eden is one of the places that they can find absolutely no evidence of. They have some theories that possibly before the flood that they think may have happened over the middle east that may have been what is written about as the Great Flood of Noah's fame, the water levels in the Persian Gulf may have been lower. If that was so, then the Tigris and Euphrates rivers may indeed have come together in one river before emptying into the gulf and there may have been an error in the writing or translation of Genesis so that it may have been meant to have said both rivers emptied into the same place rather than originating from the same source. If that is how it was then the place where the Garden of Eden may have existed may now be under the Persian Gulf.
Maybe your faith is what makes something like that seem substantial to you, but if all the scientific facts we have that substantiate the theory of evolution don't prove to you that it is scientifically valid, I don't see how you can consider what I described above as being evidence of creation.
No religious belief is seen as fact by those who don't share that belief. Evolution is not a religion, it's a scientific fact. You can't even actually compare creationism to evolution because one is a religious belief and the other is science.
You try to deny evolution, but at the same you're trying to fit it into your belief so that your belief won't become archaic.
I'm still trying to figure out what the heck you were talking about here.
Maybe you personally aren't trying to do it, but that's exactly what this Intelligent Design nonsense is all about. It's trying to combine the fact of evolution with the Christian belief in Adam and Eve. It's no more factual or scientifically substantiated than creation and also has no place in public schools.
In regards to most people that have issues with anything anti-religous,they generally have a belief and no understanding of the history of the book they follow.
