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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago

   Edgy satire! Stinging irony!
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   Razor’s edge today.
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   Thirdguy said, 6 months ago

   I guess they ran out of aspirins!
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   too-zonked said, 6 months ago

   Marco Rubio:

   “At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to answer that. It’s one of the great mysteries.”
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   GrimmaTheNome said, 6 months ago

   Parents can teach their kids what the heck they like.

   Schools should teach science in science lessons- the clue is in the name. I gather the US does not have Religious Education lessons in schools – this is a pity. RE isn’t about teaching kids what to believe, its where they learn about many belief systems. If you want to discuss competing creation myths, you need RE. This is perfectly compatible with the US being a secular state if the teaching is unbiased.
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   svetlana17 said, 6 months ago

   WHO is sponsoring this parade??
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   pbarnrob said, 6 months ago

   @too-zonked

   Reality-based folk understand that not all hypotheses are created equal; some adequately predict new discoveries, supported by both old and new data. Some are based on stories passed mouth-to-ear for many centuries, finally written down, with no relation to the data ‘on-the-ground’. If you call it “written by a Diety, thus infallible”, you’ve made a circular argument, that hovers without a basis. Whatever that is, it ain’t science.
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   Astolat said, 6 months ago

   Agree with Grimmathe Nome; I suspect that one of the reasons the UK hasn’thad such a problem with conservative evangelicals is precisely because we DO teach about religions and their competing claims in school.
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   luckylouie said, 6 months ago

   @Astolat

   Good point, Astrolet, but I think it’s too late for the U.S. If we tried to teach Religious Education, the program would quickly be hijacked by the Religious Reich to push their own agenda.
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    Coyoty said, 6 months ago

    Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun, a physician who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee:

    “God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior. There’s a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe that the Earth is about 9,000 years old. I believe that it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says. And what I’ve come to learn is that it’s the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.”
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    FriscoLou said, 6 months ago

    @Astolat

    “UK hasn’thad such a problem with conservative evangelicals is …”
    
    

    Yeah, but the Anglican church headed by the queen still won’t let women become bishops, so what’s the dif, Astolat?
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    dukedoug said, 6 months ago

    @Coyoty

    Oh dear …

    I’m with the other posters who support teaching Science in Science classes … and enabling other beliefs to be taught / discussed / proposed / whatever in other classes.

    My kids attended a secondary school run by a (Christian) religious organisation. They studied Science in Science classes and went on to earn Science degrees (one with First Class Honours from one of Aus’s most prestigious Universities). They also had a curriculum subject called “Scope”, which embraced a wide range of beliefs and religions.
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    Arye Uygur said, 6 months ago

    I think comparative religion should be taught in History class but kids should be released from school for an hour 1 or 2 days a week so they may go to their houses of worship for actual religious education.
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    Evan2061 said, 6 months ago

    In the spirit of equal time, Barak Obama said on April 13, 2008:

    Q: Senator, if one of your daughters asked you—and maybe they already have—“Daddy, did god really create the world in 6 days?,” what would you say?

    A: What I’ve said to them is that I believe that God created the universe and that the six days in the Bible may not be six days as we understand it … it may not be 24-hour days, and that’s what I believe. I know there’s always a debate between those who read the Bible literally and those who don’t, and I think it’s a legitimate debate within the Christian community of which I’m a part. My belief is that the story that the Bible tells about God creating this magnificent Earth on which we live—that is essentially true, that is fundamentally true. Now, whether it happened exactly as we might understand it reading the text of the Bible: That, I don’t presume to know.

    This is me again. It’s not really about science and what is known about the age of the earth, nor is it about religion and how long those 6 days really were, in earth creation time. It’s about politicians answering science and religion questions politically. How can we expect any more than that from ANY politician?
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    Evan2061 said, 6 months ago

    For the whole story that I took the above quote from, click here. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/11/rubio_and_obama_and_the_age_of_earth_politicians_hedge_about_whether_universe.html
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