According to the Reading and Writing and Religion II a report by the Texas Freedom Network, many Texas children are being taught creationism including the myth that the earth is only 6,000 years old. So what do you think of this development? What should we do about it? Should creationism be taught in schools?

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/01/how-texas-public-schools-still-teach-creationism

Quote from: distraff on September 07, 2013, 10:20:49 AM
According to the Reading and Writing and Religion II a report by the Texas Freedom Network, many Texas children are being taught creationism including the myth that the earth is only 6,000 years old. So what do you think of this development? What should we do about it? Should creationism be taught in schools?

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/01/how-texas-public-schools-still-teach-creationism

I believe you may have found the wrong board. We do not take lightly to baiting.

Quote from: distraff on September 07, 2013, 10:20:49 AM
According to the Reading and Writing and Religion II a report by the Texas Freedom Network, many Texas children are being taught creationism including the myth that the earth is only 6,000 years old. So what do you think of this development? What should we do about it? Should creationism be taught in schools?

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/01/how-texas-public-schools-still-teach-creationism

So we should ignore the law, just to appease you and Atheists like you that take issue with kids taking an "ELECTIVE" course on origins of Religion?

From your link.

Quote2007 the state legislature passed a law allowing school districts to offer "elective courses on the Bible's Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament." The Supreme Court long ago ruled that such classes pass constitutional muster

I'm still wondering why we teach the myth than Man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years from apes, when there is ZERO evidence of that taking place today.

Quote from: Yawn on September 07, 2013, 11:37:55 AM
I'm still wondering why we teach the myth than Man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years from apes, when there is ZERO evidence of that taking place today.

Thanks to the hoax that lasted 50 years, the Piltdown man, an entire generation was led to believe that the missing link had been found.

Remember this? It was all because of the Piltdown theory.

Hey, there's my cousin Harry!

While some (many?) of us believe Man is a special creation, and take the Scriptures literally, it nowhere says the earth is 6,000 years old. "We" believe that Adam & Eve were a special creation of the Creator and they were created 6,000 years ago (not the earth). Isn't it revealing that modern man developed cities, agriculture, writing and more only 6,000 years ago? There was a giant leap in the abilities of "Man" over those who existed previously and died out about 10,000 years ago. SOMETHING was different about that man and woman we call Adam & Eve. They suddenly became more like "gods" and less like animals (unless they're muslim  )

Quote from: Yawn on September 07, 2013, 11:37:55 AM
I'm still wondering why we teach the myth than Man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years from apes, when there is ZERO evidence of that taking place today.

Actually evolution teaches that men and apes somewhere in the past have a common ancestor. Obviously our ancestor inherited the "get smarter" gene, whereas their ancestor inherited the "keep the fur suit and continue to hang around in the jungle" gene. I've never had any problem with the idea of evolution versus scripture. The idea that an almighty, omniscient, all powerful, immortal being should work on our time scales, according to our plans, or understanding, in line with something written by humans, strikes me as hubris on our part. 

Quote from: mdgiles on September 07, 2013, 12:46:36 PM
Actually evolution teaches that men and apes somewhere in the past have a common ancestor. Obviously our ancestor inherited the "get smarter" gene, whereas their ancestor inherited the "keep the fur suit and continue to hang around in the jungle" gene. I've never had any problem with the idea of evolution versus scripture. The idea that an almighty, omniscient, all powerful, immortal being should work on our time scales, according to our plans, or understanding, in line with something written by humans, strikes me as hubris on our part.

In all my years I keep finding.   God keeps working in mysterious ways.  You just have to love his sense of humor.  We have yet to find all his creations on earth.

Quote from: mdgiles on September 07, 2013, 12:46:36 PM
Actually evolution teaches that men and apes somewhere in the past have a common ancestor. Obviously our ancestor inherited the "get smarter" gene, whereas their ancestor inherited the "keep the fur suit and continue to hang around in the jungle" gene. I've never had any problem with the idea of evolution versus scripture. The idea that an almighty, omniscient, all powerful, immortal being should work on our time scales, according to our plans, or understanding, in line with something written by humans, strikes me as hubris on our part.

Nice theory, but it isn't compatible with Scripture. And if Scripture fails on this point, how can you believe anything? The fact that you only get that it was "written by humans" and not understanding that it was authored by the Creator tells me that you don't take it seriously.

Quote from: mdgiles on September 07, 2013, 12:46:36 PM
The idea that an almighty, omniscient, all powerful, immortal being should work on our time scales, according to our plans, or understanding, in line with something written by humans, strikes me as hubris on our part.

Maybe that explains why I've only heard the "6,000-year-old-earth" theory from radical liberals, like Mother Jones.

And why I've never once heard a Christian say it.

Quote from: supsalemgr on September 07, 2013, 10:47:36 AM
I believe you may have found the wrong board. We do not take lightly to baiting.

I am discussing education and science.  What board does that belong to?

Quote from: Solar on September 07, 2013, 10:58:33 AM
So we should ignore the law, just to appease you and Atheists like you that take issue with kids taking an "ELECTIVE" course on origins of Religion?

From your link.

There is a big difference between discussing the Hebrew creation myth and telling children that the earth is 6,000 years old.

Quote from: distraff on September 07, 2013, 03:11:23 PM
I am discussing education and science.  What board does that belong to?

This one:  http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/01/how-texas-public-schools-still-teach-creationism

Granted, no normal person has ever called Mother Jones either "educational" or "scientific."  But it's pretty obvious that's the site you're randomly bumbling around the Internet looking for; and it's filled to the brim with people precisely as smart and rational as you.

Quote from: Yawn on September 07, 2013, 11:37:55 AM
I'm still wondering why we teach the myth than Man evolved over hundreds of thousands of years from apes, when there is ZERO evidence of that taking place today.

We actually have entire species that mark these transitions.  Species like homo erectus, homo habilis, homo neanderthal, and homo ergaster.

Again, I never said the earth is 6,000 years old. I did say SOMETHING happened to a certain creature called "Man" about 6,000 years ago. Before that, they didn't have agriculture, roads, cities, writing etc.  Yes there were similar creatures much earlier, but no transition from one to the other.  KIND reproduces after KIND. Man is a unique creature in which God placed the "spirit of Man"  THAT makes Man unique and why no other animal will ever "evolve" to do the things Man does today.  Man is a unique creation.  A friend used to say, Man is capable of living like gods on earth, or living lower than the animals.  Removing God from the picture seems to make Man live like animals (China, Russia Cambodia)