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Originally Posted by welshbyte
We had religious education classes in school for... 3 years, i believe. We touched on religions from anglican christianity to judaism to sikhism to ancient egyptian gods. Surely they must do that in every school??
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No, American high schools do not have mandatory religious studies classes. Some, like mine did, do have some optional classes though.
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Originally Posted by prosequence
I believe that both creationism and evolution have the same right to be taught in schools. Both are theories, none more proven than the other.
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Not true, there is a TON of physical evidence for evolution. There is absolutely none for creationism. As National Geographic states in its November 2004 issue ("Was Darwin Wrong?"):
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If you are skeptical by nature, unfamiliar with the terminology of science, and unaware of the overwhelming evidence, you might even be tempted to say that it's "just" a theory. In the same sense, relativity as described by Albert Einstein is "just" a theory. The notion that Earth orbits around the sun rather than vice versa, offered by Copernicus in 1543, is a theory. Continental drift is a theory. The existence, structure, and dynamics of atoms? Atomic theory. Even electricity is a theoretical construct, involving electrons, which are tiny units of charged mass that no one has ever seen. Each of these theories is an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree...
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(Sorry, that's all I can quote since Academic Search Elite has a 3 month delay for getting the full text of articles online
I think you get the point though)
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Originally Posted by flstf
IMHO, teaching intelligent (or unintelligent) design is not much different than teaching that the Tower of Babel is the reason for the world's many diverse languages.
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Excellent parallel