no they are dictating their belief system and imposing it on everyone else's
That's actually pretty funny coming from a fundamentalist Christian...
No. Evolution isn't "as much a religion as any Creation theory is". Why?
Because, like it or not, evolution is a Theory, yes, but it is derived from a series of scientific facts and strong assertions (assertions, because they can't be 'proven' of course.)
- Fossilised bones of dinosuars.
- Fossilised bones of early humans.
- Fossilised evidence of species changing over time.
- Species becoming extinct.
- Geographically isolated species.
- Distinct differences between differently located (but same) species.
- Different races of people.
- Tectonic plates.
- Ice ages.
- We are an immeasurably small part of an indesribably immense universe. (which we quite clearly aren't at the centre of)...etc....
All of these things point away from the Creationist theory.
The Creationist theory is absolutely central to the foundation of your religious beliefs.
And there's the difference.
To believe in Creationism, you must already believe in the literal sense of the Bible.
So, a) It makes it kind of pointless to teach, because those who are listening already believe, and; b) How do you possibly 'teach' it without turning it into Bible study?
There are millions of dedicated Christians in the world who quite happily believe in God and evolution...there are also fundamentalist Christians who believe God causes earth-quakes when he's mad.
Obviously you fit somewhere inbetween, and that's fine...
...But tell me you woulnd't be 'pushing' for Creationism to be taught if it didn't involve your All-Mighty, All-Poweful, All-Knowing, All-Seeing God?
...How about the Theory of Time Travelism?
IN the year 5000, my great-great-.....-great grandson jumps in his time machine to travel back to the absolute year dot to see how it all began. As he sat back in the vast expanses of nothingness, waiting for it all to begin, he struck a match to light up his pipe....****ING KABOOM!!!!....and so the universe began....
...now he was in a bit of a panic, thinking that he had changed the course of history, so he zoomed back to the year 5000 in his TimeBus A340, loaded up 400 of his closest buddies, and a Noah's Arc like array of plants and animals, and took them back to the newly formed Earth to once again populate mankind as we know it.
Time travel being what it is and all, the history of the Earth is now in an unbreakable, infinite loop...all because of my distant (but direct!) decendent.
There we go, a theory that is absolutely as plausable as the other two...You want that one being taught?
