Creationism, since it is based on the Christian Bible, doesn’t have a place in the public school system. The public school system, which must educate children of parents who belong to many different faiths and none at all, must remain neutral.
There isn’t anyone stopping you from sending your child(ren) to a private, religious school or homeschooling.
Dressing Creationism up in scientific jargon - that is, Intelligent Design - doesn’t convince the scientific community or judges, either.
Show me an atheist that supports Intelligent Design and you may be able to convince me that ID isn’t dressed up Creationism.
Atheism sort of precludes a designer, unless you're talking space aliens or something. See Scientology.
Christianity has a place in public education, along with other religions as philosophy, where IMHO, it proves to be head and shoulders above the other religions of the world. But it is not science.
Given the scientific fact I would ask you to answer one question. Prior to that Singularity of the Big Bang...the moment prior to the moment of creation.....Why is there something, rather than nothing at all?
Why are you posting this drivel on Free Republic at all?
And no, I'm not posting this as a "Creationist Idiot."
The argument is much further upstream from that, and in an way any FReeper would be on good diplomatic terms with, and many of the libertarians -- which seem to overlap with atheists much more than with Christians -- would heartily endorse.
Why are you ceding control of education of the children to the State (which nowadays means giving the Gramscians a 20-yard head start in a 40-yard dash)?
Why are you (implicitly) subscribing to "separation of Church and State" when that phrase wasn't in the Constitution, but was in a letter which Jefferson (who wrote the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution) wrote to friends? Why are you apparently insisting on the Establishment Clause (so called) while ignoring the Free Exercise Clause?
Because the Bible-thumpers would make the wrong choice if left to themselves, so we the educated have to make it for them? If so, can you articulate *concisely* why this philosophy is different from the liberals' wish to control? (And not just in circumstance or ad hoc, but rather, ab initio?
If not, I will be happy to forward your employment application to the Good Intentions Paving Co., LLC.
Cheers!
Creationism, since it is based on the Christian Bible, doesn’t have a place in the public school system. The public school system, which must educate children of parents who belong to many different faiths and none at all, must remain neutral.
Who taught you this?
Lemme guess...the public school system!
Keep hanging around FR kid. As if your very life depended on it!
Must remain neutral?! Have you been awake for any of the last 20 or so years?
This is the danger of growing up with MTV as your primary news source.