pizzaman100's Journal: Interesting poll on Creationism/Evolution

Religion A Strength And Weakness For Both Parties, Public Divided on Origins of Life.

Nice, posting this poll to Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years got me modded down to a -1 troll. It's good to see the \. bias kicking in as usual.

Utterly misses the point, of course

[Marxist Hacker 42]

It isn't between creationism and evolutionism, it's between creationism and atheism. There's nothing at all in evolution that indicates the non-existance of Bigfoot, let alone God. Only a person who believes that a lack of evidence somehow "proves" a lack of existance would say different.

For that reason, I don't mind children being taught ID, creationism, and evolution side by side- because in a very real way, the proper understanding of those three makes them completely compatible and fights against rel

Re:Utterly misses the point, of course

[pizzaman100]

Good points. Evolution makes sense as a theory for natural selection, but it becomes a problem when it's used as a means advocate a atheistic world view in the schools.

I think most people are more pragmatic like you (and the poll indicates this) - that children be taught the various theories side by side and let them reason out their own belief system.