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Originally Posted by The Familia
I teach in the Catholic school board and I can tell you the curriculum is the same as CBE. Contrary to what you believe, yes we do in fact teach science and math! I don't know of anyone who shuns facts or logic. I teach my students to think critically and question things every single day. Religion is not immune to questioning. You can question and still have faith. I would love for you to attend a Gr. 9 Religion class and partake in our discussions. Some very enlightening and open minded stuff going on.
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How's the sex-ed teaching? Support for LGBTQ students?
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Originally Posted by The Familia
As for evidence, go ahead and prove that God doesn't exist. I'll wait. Just like I can't prove there is a God you can't prove there isn't. That's where individual belief comes into play. I think you are a lunatic if you believe that everything in our universe has happened by random chance and are not open to the possibility of a higher power or force. News flash....you can believe in science and a higher power at the same time. They are more intricately linked than you give credit for.
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If you state something exists, the onus is on you to prove it exists, not on everyone else to prove it doesn't. It's the very opposite of scientific. You're acting like assuming God doesn't exist is a belief in itself, it isn't. It's simply the lack of belief in God.
And quite frankly, the notion that our two options are "God" or "random chance" is lunacy. People are happy to understand that we do not have the answers and that we will continue searching for them. That's the scientific pursuit. You have taken a shortcut and come to a conclusion without evidence. That is unscientific.
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Originally Posted by The Familia
A close family friend who has a PhD in astrophysics and was a professor at UBC (he is not religious nor affiliated with any religious organization) told us once that it would be foolish of any true scientist to completely discredit the possibility of a God. There are some things science simply can't explain.
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There is a difference between not discrediting the possibility of a God, and believing God exists and making decisions and forming a belief system around that idea. And the space between those things is incredibly vast.
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Originally Posted by The Familia
You hate the vocal believers for "pushing" their beliefs, well, looks like you are doing the same thing.
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And again, not believing in God is not pushing a belief. There is no belief. God does not exist until one can prove with some degree of certainty through the scientific method that he does. And until that time, forming an entire system of belief and moral practice around that idea, seems pretty foolish.
I have no problem with people who believe in God. But I think it is completely ridiculous to make claims of science, of a lack of proof being proof itself, or that refusing to believe in something for which there is no evidence is a belief system in itself. That is moronic.