Saturday, January 17, 2009

Creation stories in science class? Response

I imagine that many periodicals will be comparing ID and Creationism with numerous fanciful stories. As one can read in my previous postings, there is a fundamental difference between ID, creationism and myths. That difference is that there are scientists that do advocate ID and creationism for the causation of everything. Below is a portion of an article from The Independent. http://www.theind.com/content/view/3729/92/. Creation stories in science class?. By R. Reese Fuller. Friday, January 16, 2009

Patti Garner of the Louisiana chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State brings up an interesting point about the Louisiana Science Education Act. Now that the restriction prohibiting the inclusion of religious beliefs (specifically that a supernatural being created humankind) has been removed by BESE in a vote of 10-0, aren't all creationism beliefs and stories now fair game for presenting in science class? Can teachers now advance Muslin, Sumerian, Babylonian, Aztec, and Mayan creation stories in the science classroom to balance the theory of evolution? Garner says, "They can conceivably teach their point of view about the start of life, and that would prove that this is a creationism bill because people would be in an uproar about that." Can any creation story (and there are plenty) now be taught as science?
Evolution has a make believe story as well.

It is interesting that the Louisiana chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State would make this act an issue. Humanism is a registered religion with the United States government. It is listed as a religious faith which stands against religion. Lawyers could make the case that because life from non life is not a fact, then it is a religious tenant of Humanism. Boys and girls let's learn about how over billions of years rocks appeared from microscopic atoms. These rocks were rained on for millions of years until goo formed. The goo grew and grew and grew. Because the goo grew and grew and grew we now have you. How do we know this happened? Scientists imagined that it took place.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Evolution has a make believe story as well.

The stupidity burns.

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