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Originally Posted by Burninator
The people that are advocating creationism being taught in school are the young earth creationists. Which basically means that humans were created at our present form and the earth is younger than 10 000 years. I don't believe there is really a push to add the possibility that God kick started the universe with a big bang to a school curriculum. There could be with evolution, but I am not really sure what you would teach. The theory of evolution is a process that works complete on it's own, I haven't heard how God fits into it, beside a role that has him controlling it. I am not sure how that lecture would go, "Evolution is a natural process, but it's guided by God."? It just seems easy to remove a God from such a scenario in my mind.
My guess is people are comparing when people thought the earth was flat back in the day (when evidenced had presented itself), to the people of today who think the earth is a young earth (10 000 years or less). People in both times were being ignorant toward evidence and instead relying on a faith or what have you.
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Are you talking about my junior high science teacher? How he got away with preaching so much nonsense during science class is beyond me. I thought it was illegal to do so in Alberta.
He claimed that the continents were created during The Flood ( The kangaroos mjust have swam to Australia I guess
) and people and dinosaurs co-existed.
When asked why dinosaurs were typically found in lower levels of sediment then human fossils he explained it by saying, "Humans lived on the hills and dinosaurs lived in the swamps."
It still pisses me off to no end that I was forced to sit through that mindless garbage, and it really destroyed my faith in the education system.