Many Texas Schools Teach Creationism

MarineTpartier · Sep 10, 2013

Gaius46 said:
The only answer science can give to your question is "we don't know". And that ultimately illustrates why science works. The ultimate beginnings of our universe - the time before the first instant after the Big Bang falls outside of science of today. Maybe tomorrow will be different. But today science is ignorant of that and is at least honest enough to admit that ignorance.

Thanks to you as well for being honest about this subject.

Cephus · Sep 10, 2013

SBu said:
Speaking just about rational religious people, and not the creationists and those that take the hebrew bible literally; I think that the answer for them is known. For them there is not a "I don't know." They know it just as you know the earth revolves around the sun, the existence of God that is. So they fill in the gaps that science has not explained or admits limited understanding of and insert their truth.

Should you be able to teach that faith based truth in schools, getting back to the OP. No. Not unless it's a religious school, or a class that covers other religions as part of a broader religion study curriculum.

But the problem is, the answer is not know, the answer is asserted. Knowledge requires some basis in reality. You can't just claim to know something you have no way of actually knowing. I can't just claim to know that unicorns are real, I have to explain *HOW* I know and faith is not knowledge until I can do that. Faith in a god and faith in unicorns or leprechauns or anything of the sort are not significantly different.

There's no such thing as a faith-based truth. There are faith-based beliefs, but unless you can demonstrate that it's actually true, and that requires evidence, logic and critical thinking, it's not a truth.

Cephus · Sep 10, 2013

Gaius46 said:
The only answer science can give to your question is "we don't know". And that ultimately illustrates why science works. The ultimate beginnings of our universe - the time before the first instant after the Big Bang falls outside of science of today. Maybe tomorrow will be different. But today science is ignorant of that and is at least honest enough to admit that ignorance.

Which is more than you can say about religion, which also doesn't know, but chooses to make up an answer anyhow.

Many Texas Schools Teach Creationism

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