And teach it along side other creation myths.
You have not addressed the matter of why it belongs in a science class, the place where kids go to learn about how the world works, not how some Christians believe it might work.
I don’t really care where it gets taught, or mentioned. I just don’t want to ban it from schools.
this is missing the point. a religion class - any kind, on any topic or religion - has NO PLACE in a public school. if you want your children to learn about a certain religion, or religions, or a certain belief of a certain religion, then send them to sunday school, or teach it to them yourself. creationism and anything similar should absolutely be banned from public schools. -M
I completely disagree. I’m a staunch atheist but I think that a high school comparative religion class would be a very helpful and reasonable course. Such a course would not violate either the establishment or free exercise provisions of the First Amendment.
Even further, such a course would help promote understanding of others. How many of you actually know much about other religions. Whether we like it or not there are many people around us with different religions from us and it’s a school’s obligation to inform us about the world around us.
The idea is to teach them about many religions equally. A catholic family may only teach their kid about Catholicism, a jew only about Judaism, an atheist/agnostic about none. A comparative religion class would teach all to everyone.
