highwaystar101 on 18 August 2009
| JEDE3 said: That's funny guys... I distinctly remmeber learning about Muslim and Hindu in my 7th grade history class.... And I sat wondering... "Why can they teach about this shit and evolution... but not creationalism?" |
Well the reason is that you learn about religions in R.E. (or the american equivalent) and R.E. is a humantiarian/cultural class, not science. Evolution by means of natural selection is taught in science because it is a scientific theory. Creationism fits into neither in any significant way, there is no scientific theory of creationism, it isn't an alternative as there is no testable hypothesis (That I know of). Creationism also does not represent a religion or culture as it is a broad term for a set of acknowledgments that many religions (and some agnostics) and so it has no real place in R.E.
