Religion is as important as science, history, math, and language in school. I feel a comprehensive (all religions) religious course or courses would hurt no one and benifit most. HOWEVER, if we are teaching science, we should stick to scientific method - which disqualifies intelligent design and almost dismisses evolution as well (evolution is pretty frail as an explaination of the source of life). Science is things like biology, physics, astronomy, and psychology. Theoretical explaination of natural phenomena that has at least some basis in relative fact is what I consider to be science. As we are now, God (or any godlike or supreme supernatural being) is not explained in any way by science. Whether evolution is explained by science is debatable, but I think we can agree that we are a long way from having a general theory of supernatural benevolant phenomena.
Last edited by Willravel; 12-14-2004 at 01:02 PM..
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