How about teaching evolution at Sunday school?

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Originally posted by Tranquility Base:
Churches are non-government instituions and so can decide what they teach themselves. Government sciecne educational organizitons should teach distinct alternatives that are known to explain phenomena.

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If all you have to do is explain, not show evidence, then the Galactic Goat Theory of Everything qualifies.

Evolution'ism'. is not a theory, no.The Theory of Evolution is a theory, though.If you read the message I was replying to, you will notice that TB wants to have his Biblically-based "explanations" of natural phenomena taught as science in public school science classrooms.Of course, my point was that there can be "explanations" of all kinds, including the "explanation" that the Great Galactic Goat made everything the way we see it today.The difference between Biblically-based "explanations", the Galactic Goat "explanation", and those of science is that only the scientific ones are based upon observation of nature, are falsifiable, and the observations are repeatable.

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At that time if they have allowed thier faith to get to closly tied to a "literalist" (of course, not really literal though) interpreation of the bible then their faith is at risk. When someone finds they have been lied to about one thing they may let the suspicion unfairly carry over into other aspects of what they have been taught.

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...and that is exactly what Zhimbo, who is also my husband, tells me is the reason he stopped going to church when he was 12, and eventually stopped believing when he got to his early teens.[This message has been edited by schrafinator, 10-09-2003]