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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Aug 31 2005, 03:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Aug 31 2005, 03:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-FireFly@Aug 31 2005, 02:56 PM
The only thing that bothers me in this debate is that schools teach children the big bang theory, and nothing else. Which leads children to believe it as truth. There's no proof backing up the theory, only speculation and a few experiments with inconclusive results. And yet, this is all that's taught. Why can't schools just skip the entire creation/big bang? Why do they have to go into it at all?
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Well it may not be "proven", but it's the best we've got. You can't just "not teach it" because believe me, the kids are gonna ask. It's either this theory or it's nothing and nothing isn't really an option. [/b][/quote]
So why can't they say, 'we don't know, but we have a few ideas, some think it was a big bang, and others think it may have been the work of a higher power. We can't really advocate either, because we can't prove it one way or the other. We do know there is evolution though...' and explain it both ways? One theory is no more or less proven than the other at this point in time. Neither is scientific, because neither can or have been proven. What place does either have in a science class?