re: #335 reine.de.tout

I’m going to go way out and say I don’t think “creationism” or “ID” (as these are defined by Discovery Institute and others), don’t belong in religion class, either.

Religion class should be a study of God and faith; the biblical story of how man was created is of course part of that, but nowhere near what’s really important about faith and living according to faith.

Of course I’m saying this as a person of faith who recognizes and realizes that science cannot be denied, and the evolutionary process is indeed how we came to be (in my mind, it’s the method by which God caused us to be).

If you’re teaching ID and creationism, you’re teaching something that denies science, so no matter what is taught in a science class, you’re getting a whole contradictory message from religion class. I don’t think the two things, faith and science, are contradictory, and I cannot for the life of me understand why people think they are. It just makes no sense to me, that people will deny the wonder of this world we live in, by denying scientific discoveries (and in my mind, that’s a HUGE insult to God).

A philosophy class might be better.