There are a couple of posts here that infers rather strongly that there are those who believe the first part of Genesis should be used as a science book.
I know of denominations that believe that each day of the creation was 1000 years and that it’s been 6000 years since the creation of Adam and Eve and they are rather emphatic about that.
“There are a couple of posts here that infers rather strongly that there are those who believe the first part of Genesis should be used as a science book.”
Stephen Hawking wrote, “There is a probably apocryphal story, that when Laplace was asked by Napoleon, how God fitted into this system, he replied, ‘Sire, I have not needed that hypothesis.’ I don’t think that Laplace was claiming that God didn’t exist. It is just that He doesn’t intervene to break the laws of science. That must be the position of every scientist. A scientific law is not a scientific law if it only holds when some supernatural being decides to let things run, and not intervene.”
The trouble with that is that the laws of science are only as they are because that’s the way God wants it. He can, and does, intervene to break the laws of science. They bind us, but not God.
Now, I don’t think the Bible should be used as a “science textbook” either, but that’s really a red herring. The real issue is preventing children from being informed of the things I wrote in the paragraph above, no matter what pretext is being advanced.
“I know of denominations that believe that each day of the creation was 1000 years and that it’s been 6000 years since the creation of Adam and Eve and they are rather emphatic about that.”
Why should you care what they believe? Do you think the Constitution should be amended to remove protections on freedom of religion?