AtheistBuddah
Senior Member
We are all familiar with the ideological battle being waged today between evolution and creationism in our classrooms. Creationists demand that the origin as told in Genesis should be taught in the science classroom and scientists are demanding that it stay out because it is not science. I can understand and relate with how both sides must feel.
On the one hand, you have scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson saying that they wouldn't like it if scientists started knocking down Sunday school doors telling them what to teach and that's a fair argument.
On the other hand you have creationist feeling like the theory of evolution is being forced on their children because education is mandated for all children under 18 and therefore science class is mandated for all children under 18 and if science class teaches evolution then by extension evolution is mandated upon children. So I can see how these parents would be upset that their view is not represented.
So I offer this compromise. Add a theology class to the public school curriculum. In it they teach the various faiths and just as science class spends on semester teaching biology and the next teaching physics and so on so too will theology class spend a semester on Christianity and the Bible and the next on Islam and the Koran and so on and so forth. This would allow the creationists a place where their hypothesis on the origin of existence is represented and children are given the chance to learn about it, understand it and then choose to accept it or not accept it.
On the one hand, you have scientists like Neil deGrasse Tyson saying that they wouldn't like it if scientists started knocking down Sunday school doors telling them what to teach and that's a fair argument.
On the other hand you have creationist feeling like the theory of evolution is being forced on their children because education is mandated for all children under 18 and therefore science class is mandated for all children under 18 and if science class teaches evolution then by extension evolution is mandated upon children. So I can see how these parents would be upset that their view is not represented.
So I offer this compromise. Add a theology class to the public school curriculum. In it they teach the various faiths and just as science class spends on semester teaching biology and the next teaching physics and so on so too will theology class spend a semester on Christianity and the Bible and the next on Islam and the Koran and so on and so forth. This would allow the creationists a place where their hypothesis on the origin of existence is represented and children are given the chance to learn about it, understand it and then choose to accept it or not accept it.
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