[MissAmericanPie]

I don't think we can be mute on the subject. However so far there is no scientific explination for how we all got here. I certainly think it should be taught as to how species evolve to adapt to their climate, what the species looked like, how it functioned. I don't think it should be taught as being the answer as to where life came from when they just don't honestly know.

It's better for one to say they don't know rather than be wrong. We should use the documentation we have at hand, the provable points of evolustion, and especially the Bible. No use casting aside the oldest writings on the planet because of the religious label while ignoring how accurate it is in regards to which species came first, fish, birds, mammals, man.

Also the bible relates the difference between that world and this one, it never rained then, the earth was watered by a mist that rose from the ground, the atmosphere did not support the viewing of a rainbow, and something about the conditions allowed human life to continue from six to nine hundred years. Given what data is available to us the possibility of God should be made available to all students, it's certainly more important data than which came first, the chicken or the egg. The bible says the chicken came first with the egg inside it. Evolution takes the opposite stance, both should be available for study and experimentation.

[PatrickHenry]

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[Physicist]

No use casting aside the oldest writings on the planet because of the religious label while ignoring how accurate it is in regards to which species came first, fish, birds, mammals, man.

And should we also teach that trees and grasses existed before the sun did?

[balrog666]

The bible says the chicken came first with the egg inside it. Evolution takes the opposite stance, both should be available for study and experimentation.

The egg starts at the left arrow, chickens show up on the bottom right (much, much later).

[Right Wing Professor]

No use casting aside the oldest writings on the planet because of the religious label while ignoring how accurate it is in regards to which species came first, fish, birds, mammals, man.

The Bible is nowhere near the oldest writing on the planet. Chinese and Indus valley writings predate it by at least 1000 years. The Epic of Gilgamesh is probably the oldest still extant written narrative. The Sumerian creation myth, Enuma Elish , is probably older than Genesis.

The bird/fish/mammal sequence is not as close to the palaeontological sequence as you might think; fish appeared far earlier than either birds or mammals, and the latter two are of comparable antiquity. Moreover, whales did not appear before the rest of the mammals; and the creeping things' that were created on the sixth day surely included arthropods and reptiles, both of which actually predated birds.