Creationists want to put God back in classroom

Description: One creationist in Louisiana is striving to take the Bible from the church and into the classroom, arguing that it is un-American not to allow students to learn different views of how the world was created. While it is not illegal to teach creationism in public schools, most science teachers opt to teach evolution alone. Dave Prentice wants to change that.

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Education

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• creationism
• creationist
• intelligent design
• God
• evangelical
• creationism in schools
• evolution
• louisiana
• prentice
• priya

[1996KTDW]

I don't understand why America is so religious, America was has a secular constitution and most of the founding fathers where either Atheists, Deists and I believe there was at least one pantheist. America was not supposed to be religious, but yet it is. On the other hand in the UK, our head of state is also the head of the church of England but a large amount of people are atheists and most of those who are Christian do not go to church.

[Clatterpinch]

@Truth75863 If there are enough advantageous (or simply non-detrimental) mutations in a species, eventually it can become a species so unlike the one it started as it will become an entire new one and be unable to breed with the species it originated as.

Evolution is not far fetched at all. It's a very simple and obvious process, unlike creationism.

[atheistram]

@Truth75863 Gravity is both a theory and a law.

[Atriviality]

@Truth75863

"if a theory is law then it should be fact"

- A theory is an explaination of a process. A law is a generalized observation of a phenomenon. A fact is a verifiable observation. They are not interchangable terms. Theories are made of facts and laws and explain facts and laws.

For example:

Fact - orbital objects are moving.

Law - The force on an orbital object is the square of the distances from the centers.

Theory - predict the exact location of the moon in 72 hours.

[Atriviality]

@Mogley52

"They only debate non-scientist creationists"

- Dawkins and Hawking don't debate ANY creationists. Hawking doesn't really debate anyone because he's almost completely paralysed and needs to type everything he wants to say in advance. Dawkins doesn't do it because he thinks it's a waste of time.

"the scientific impossibility of life coming into existence by chance or evolution."

- It's about the same as a snowflake coming into existence by chance.

[Atriviality]

@Truth75863

"Of course you can prove gravity"

- You can't prove any theory, even the theory of gravity. This is because everything we know is only accepted until something more accurate comes along. Newton's theory of gravity was replaced by Einstein's theory of gravity because Einstein's was more accurate. Newton's is only used to teach children because it's easy.

"when you drop something it falls due to a magnetic pull in the earth that pull is gravity"

- Gravity is not magnetic.

[Truth75863]

@PervAccount What are you talking about? Of course you can prove gravity, when you drop something it falls due to a magnetic pull in the earth that pull is gravity, y do you think we don't float every where and stay on the ground? Do you have another explanation for that?

[PervAccount]

@Truth75863 that just helped prove me right. issac newton came up with the theory of gravitation. now i invite you to google the gravitational theory (and isaac newton for that matter).

[Truth75863]

@PervAccount Actually according to the scientific comminity it is a law since it can be tested and proved, google Isaac Newton.

[PervAccount]

@Truth75863 according to the scientific community, gravity is "only" a theory.