re: #33 darthstar

I taught creation mythology to my students (High School Freshmen English) for a few years…it was the best way to start the year, I thought. First, they were all coming out of middle school, so getting hit with a ‘heavy’ high school kind of class hooked them, and hooked them well. The Christian kids did just as well as the rest of the students, and by the end of the first four weeks we’d have good discussions of creation mythology (including the Christian myth from the bible) as just that…mythology. And the best part is, they brought up Genesis on their own, after seeing similarities to it in the other creation myths.

As long as a politician or elected school board member or any believer in creationism can effect change in science classes and inject creationism as a “science” topic, then I have a problem.

But I also see a problem with ANYONE tagging a person as problematic just because they believe in creationism. I have seen to much of a tendency lately to simple consider anyone who believes in creationism as flawed, illogical, incapable of critical thinking.

My point, if you have a belief in a god, you better check your distaste for creationism at the door, because you are technically in the same boat with the creationist… a belief in a magical, mystical, mythical concept based on flawed foundation material (holy text).