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Which should be taught in school science classes?

Which should be taught in school science classes?

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Mellie said:
Yet the Big Bang theory is the only theory that I learned in high school about the creation of the universe. Why not share other theories with kids and let them think for themselves?
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because schools shouldn't teach religion in science class, period.
 
liblady said:
we are all evolved from some common ancestor........dig's site claims it was noah. and, how do you explain the creationist theory that the earth is 6000 years old, when we have proof it isn't?
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He just said that we don't know what a "day" is to God.
 
liblady said:
we are all evolved from some common ancestor........dig's site claims it was noah. and, how do you explain the creationist theory that the earth is 6000 years old, when we have proof it isn't?
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I don't believe the earth is 6000 years old. I am an old earth Christian. We don't know how long a day is to the creator of everything. As for Noah, could be. The truth is we don't know.
 
winston53660 said:
Should time be devoted to the theory that the Earth is around 6,000 years as some people believe?
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If sufficient scientific evidence can be provided.
 
Mellie said:
He just said that we don't know what a "day" is to God.
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um......creationists teach that earth is about 6000 years old, and they don't teach "god years". i can't believe you are a teacher, mellie. religion aside, you should know better. teach it in sunday school, if you wish.
 
Redress said:
We can show a direct line in most cases from A to Z. We can show how mutations do lead to changes and we can show how nature selects for those changes. Most of that is observable in nature today.
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No we can't. We can look at similarities and say "A probably became Z." True we can show how mutations can cause changes (usually detrimental and fatal). However, we can't look at creature A's genome, compare it to Z, and say "this is the mutations that lead to these new traits and speciation."

Honestly it's getting hard responding to like 5 different people...
 
liblady said:
um......creationists teach that earth is about 6000 years old, and they don't teach "god years". i can't believe you are a teacher, mellie. religion aside, you should know better. teach it in sunday school, if you wish.
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lib, I really don't know what your problem is with me. Can't you just talk about the topic without the insults? Jeez louise.

Yes, I know what Creationism is. I was pointing out what Blackdog said to you that you seemed to have missed.
 
Blackdog said:
I don't believe the earth is 6000 years old. I am an old earth Christian. We don't know how long a day is to the creator of everything. As for Noah, could be. The truth is we don't know.
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i am a christian as well.....but i believe in evolution. i don't think they are irreconcilable.
 
Mellie said:
Yet the Big Bang theory is the only theory that I learned in high school about the creation of the universe. Why not share other theories with kids and let them think for themselves?
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I believe this would be because the Big Bang theory is the only one that accounts for what we have observed. To be a theory, it has to account for observation.
 
Blackdog said:
A "pretty good list" based on guesses is not fact of anything. It could be good evidence as any scientist can tell you. That is pretty much as far as it goes.
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Well what does creationism have going for it?
 
liblady said:
i am a christian as well.....but i believe in evolution. i don't think they are irreconcilable.
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Do you believe God created everything?
 
Blackdog said:
A "pretty good list" based on guesses is not fact of anything. It could be good evidence as any scientist can tell you. That is pretty much as far as it goes.
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It is not based on guesses.
 
liblady said:
i am a christian as well.....but i believe in evolution. i don't think they are irreconcilable.
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You don't think a creator capable of making everything would be able to put evolution into effect? Hmmmmm.
 
Blackdog said:
You don't think a creator capable of making everything would be able to put evolution into effect? Hmmmmm.
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I don't think that a creator causes evolution to happen is observable nor disprovable, and as such is not a theory.
 
Blackdog said:
You don't think a creator capable of making everything would be able to put evolution into effect? Hmmmmm.
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Of course there could be a "creator" but what evidence is there for one?
 
Blackdog said:
Yes it is, otherwise it would not have to be constantly updated as new evidence is uncovered.
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Again, not true. Using evidence to back a claim is not "guessing".
 
Blackdog said:
Yes it is, otherwise it would not have to be constantly updated as new evidence is uncovered.
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Any theory that is not a fact is in essence an educated guess. This does not make it a bad thing and some are indeed eventually found to be facts. In this case though, it is not, yet! Some day it may be, but not today.
 
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Redress said:
Again, not true. Using evidence to back a claim is not "guessing".
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Evidence is what it is. Some is found to be factual some is not. End of story.
 
Mellie said:
lib, I really don't know what your problem is with me. Can't you just talk about the topic without the insults? Jeez louise.

Yes, I know what Creationism is. I was pointing out what Blackdog said to you that you seemed to have missed.
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my apologies. i meant that as a teacher, you should know better than to teach religion in school. and i didn't miss anything, the point here is that some creationsists, you? believe the earth is only 6000 years old. human years. dig believes that, and yet we do have proof that it is far, far, older. science, you have to teach actual science in school, not bible created suppositions. you also have to realize that creationsists who are "scientists" have an agenda.
 
Blackdog said:
Any theory that is not a fact is in essence an educated guess. This does not make it a bad thing and some are indeed eventually found to be facts. In this case though, it is not.
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Again, not true. Observing and drawing conclusions based on those observations, then testing those conclusions is not "guessing". Yes, as new evidence comes out, we adjust and reject theories and create new ones, but they are much more than guesses.
 
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