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   How I see this
   a) Those who are christian don’t believe in something that is earthly (spagehhti).

   b) Why Evolution why not FSM or what ever… why does evolution get the automatic teaching in science classes

   c) I believe even christian schools have science class with evolution

   d) Pope John Paul the Second has mentioned that evolution and Christianity are not incompatible.

   I would like to hear your views on this.

   Comment by any — January 14, 2009 @ 11:39 PM

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   My thing is, Intelligent Design points more at teaching religion in schools, vs science itself. Not that either can’t work together or that they exist without one another. I am not for or against any religion, nor do I follow any one religion as a whole. My faith is that we come from somewhere. We exist. What and where we come from, I don’t know, nor do I think science or religion have 100% of the answer at this point. Some might argue that point, but that is their belief or faith and I respect that.

   Religion such as Christianity has “faith” in God, as our creator, and science can even back up events of the bible right down to the dates and everything, but as for Christianity being taught in schools I feel that if you teach one religion as the only word of truth, you have to teach about all of them and what they believe so people can make up their minds for themselves. About what their idea of creationism is, and that is not so much science to me as it is religious science, or Theology, the study of religion and different faiths. I think to put in one view in schools is closed minded if it pretains to one creator and one faith, and for the schools that were doing it, they were not so much about trying to teach other views to compliment science, but more about teaching their one single minded view that God created everything and that Christianity is the only faith that is right about it all. At least, for them it is, and I have no problem with that. But there are other theories out there, and other religions and people of other faiths, so lets keep that in Church and in the field of Theology, and in a separate class that teaches religion and their thoughts about creationism, and leave science experiments to deal with just science and the studies there in.

   There have been plenty of scientists who have believed in god and even talked about their faith openly. I would say there are many today who work in different fields of science that helped us put people in Space and fly planes and cure diseases, etc. Many who have come up with a lot of todays inventions and ideas we use today. And science and religion do not have to be exclusive from one another really, but I think its wrong to try and combat the idea of evolution with creationism when pertaining to one religion as it is a way for them to put religion back into the schools. There is separation of Church and State in the US for a reason. Not so we all become heathens or immoral sinners, but because we have the right and freeodm to choose any religion we want, and any faith we want, and the law protects that right for us. To force a single view on anyone is not about faith, but about control, and that I think takes away what the word of god and the bible stand for, and what all faiths try to teach. It corrupts the faiths into segregating others and alienating them from the fact that no one has a right to choose for you, nor should you be subjected to it if it is against your own beliefs or faith.

   Parents have the right to choose what faith to believe in for their children(to some extent), and at some point the child has to make up their own mind if that is what they believe in or if they believe in some other faith or religion, but science is the teaching of theories and ideas, then experiments and proving them to be either fact or false. Religion does not do either, since it is a leap of ones own faith to either believe or not believe. It doe snto have to prove in calculations or mathematical formulas, experiments, etc, that God exists, nor does it have to prove how we were created, or if it was intelligent design. They already belive that to begin with, and would dismiss any science that would say otherwise, since they believe that to be their truth. Not that their isn’t science in religion, but to say for a fact that something is the only truth, one only has to have faith in it for it to be true, and what you have faith in, no one can decide for you or teach to you.

   So I feel creationism and Intelligent Design is more about faith and what one finds to be truth, and not so much science and proving or disproving it with factual experimentation and ideas. Religion is not about ideas, theories and experiments to prove their faith, as it is about the word of that faith, and that it is the truth undisputed by their faith alone. They do not hav eto rpove anything if they have faith in their religion, since that is already their truth.

   Comment by admin — January 15, 2009 @ 1:14 AM

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