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Kairyu
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Message 22 of 77 (659040)
04-12-2012 7:54 AM


If I remember correctly, school during childhood had a mixed group of christian kids,both TE and creationist. I remember being taught the creationist story, they merely taught the bible story, but it was not pushed as literal truth, although I don't exactly remember it being denied to be. Books free to read in school taught me about DNA, and I also remember one about the big bang.
Because of the millennium change, the school had a major project based on history. Our class was about dinosaurs, a subject which I knew little of at that age.(7) I don't recall if there were any attempts at reconciliation, but I remember a presentation holding up letters, and my explicit line was ''Dinosaurs have been extinct for X years'', we saw a documentary about it, so based on that my school was liberal about it. I think the liberal Christians were the majority in the school, as are most of the teachers.
I actually learned about Evolution itself reading a translation of the UK horrible science series, the book being about dinosaurs. It explained how Darwin came up with it, and also dealt with the church being in denial about the Dinosaurs and Evolution.
By my early teens, I consciously viewed the Bible as symbolic. My first actual encounter with creationism was when I casually talked with a classmate in secondary school, who, like me, both didn't fit into the larger group that well at times. I don't remember how we got to it, (it was history class though) but he denied the earth being old, to my great astonishment.I didn't realize before people held on to creationist beliefs even when being taught science.
I attended the association of the more orthodox church weekly of the town I live in about 2,5 years ago, simply because I liked discussion and being in a group with friendly people. I didn't know that much about the creationist doctrine beforehand, so I ended up learning a lot about it. . Because I was still secretly having religous OCD, I didn't really mind that much, but it still was somewhat confusing to me.

  
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