How about I start campaigning for reincarnation to be taught in our schools? How about life according to Buddha? Or the tenets of Shintoism? I am sure most of the existing Amerindian nations have some thoughts on the mystery of creation. Out of fairness, their beliefs must be represented in the schools if any are.
How are the teachings you happen to believe in, any more worthy of representation in the school than the beliefs of any other people? Because you believe yours to be true? HMMMM, that must be why we have that separation of church and state thing/
Why should any religious teachings replace the discoveries of science in the schools?
These are good questions. But let's consider them within the context of America since that is where most of us reside. Our countries founders were all theists. Everyone signed the declaration which talks about all men being created and being endowed by their creator. As theists they wrote a constitution from the basis of a theistic framework of logic, experience, and truth. Any usage of that document to undermine theism is an unconstitutional argument or agenda because it seeks to destroy the very foundation on which the document rests. The constitution never attempted to remove theism from our institutions but rather it limited government from prohibiting the free exercise of it.
The context of this thread is not about teaching religion in public schools but about whether evolution is a myth. The question is whether science can only be taught from an atheistic perspective which is also a belief system or whether it can be taught from a theistic perspective as well. Do you really think our theistic founders formulated their document to be used to ban a theistic understanding of science? Theistic science was in progress long before Darwin came along and introduced an atheistic and materialistic bias.
