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Why not teach both? How long would it take to teach "creationism", anyway? An hour? Genesis isn't really all that long.

Why should a religious story be taught outside of a religious studies class at all? Further, Genesis is not the only "creation" story out there.

Why should a religious story be taught outside of a religious studies class at all? Further, Genesis is not the only "creation" story out there.

Shrug, no kidding. But I figured it would be a good compromise to let kids listen to an hour of highly allegorical Jewish mythology, and then settle in to the alternate explanation of evolution.

Nobody seems much interested in compromises, though.

Why should a religious story be taught outside of a religious studies class at all? Further, Genesis is not the only "creation" story out there.

Why don’t they just teach Intelligent Design vs. stupid design?

You have obviously picked your “creation” story…

"Why should a religious story be taught outside of a religious studies class at all? Further, Genesis is not the only "creation" story out there."

If nothing else it would serve to puncture the myth developed by Western rationalist philosophers that there is a great divide between different modes of thinking and they belong in separate spheres of reality. Descartes and his dualism thing. Wrong, one reality. Actually there is not a divide between faith and reason, the greatest philosophers (Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant) tried to bridge that gap. Science is not "self-reliant" as an epistemology, as it relies on the testimony of the senses - but how much can you trust them? So is "senses" more or less trustworthy than "revealed truth"? ... Maybe this belongs more in 'philosophy of science' but at least *presenting the creation stories* then explaining what they explain and what they dont explain would help kids THINK. ("So how old is the earth, anyway?")

And isnt that what teaching is supposed to be all about?

This nonsense of kicking out everything not 'official science' is well, er, narrowminded. So yes, teach Genesis and the other 'creation' stories as a part of attempts to deal with and understand the created universe, then explain what Aristotle figured out and then what others figured out along the way.