[weegee]

I thought creationism was the belief that man and dinosaurs lived together and that the world is only a few thousand years old.

Now it is wrong for people to believe that God had any hand in the existence of the world? Or at least to consider the posibility in an educational setting? How about in "philosophy"?

Sets up the potential situation that atheism (absolute belief that there is no god) can be the defacto state religion. Agnostics are the ones who say "don't know".

Or is the position that it is okay to say that "god may exist but He didn't have any role in everything else"?

[MineralMan]

"I thought creationism was the belief that man and dinosaurs lived together and that the world is only a few thousand years old.

Now it is wrong for people to believe that God had any hand in the existence of the world? Or at least to consider the posibility in an educational setting? How about in "philosophy"?
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Not at all. Many Christians, perhaps even a majority, believe that evolution is the way their deity created all those species. That does not necessarily make it true, but that is what they believe.

The bottom line is that we do not teach religion as science in our public schools. That's not going to change. This case is about just that.

[metmom]

I thought creationism was the belief that man and dinosaurs lived together and that the world is only a few thousand years old.


Ahem....NOT ALL CREATONISTS BELIEVE THE EARTH IS ONLY 6,000 YEARS OLD. Evolutionists need to get that idea out of their head. There is nothing in the Bible that states WHEN the Earth was created. Some guy, somewhere, worked backwards throught the genealogies listed in the Bible starting with the birth of Christ and calculated it based on the ages of the ancestors listed. It was strictly a human idea and I am not familiar, myself, with any denominations that teach it and require it to be believed. It is not part of the teaching of the Bible. (Sorry to yell at you.)

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Now it is wrong for people to believe that God had any hand in the existence of the world?

Yes it is wrong, because children might get the idea that the State isn't the highest power in the universe, and they owe their very existence and loyalty always to the State (except during the times evil Republicans are in power). *kof* *splurgh*