Catching up with “Brave New World” (science program with Stephen Hawking) and there’s a “Thought for the day” type thing before it.
Should Creationism be taught in schools?
It’s just a guy (18) saying that he believes that for fair and objective science Creationism should be taught.
He believes that dinosaurs and man must have co-existed because in the Bible it says that all the land animals were made on the 6th day and they are land animals. Therefore logically they must have co-existed.
He says that Creationism isn’t taught because people think that if you do then they fear you’ll be teaching the whole view of Christianity rather than just the Creation-bit.
He says: “(maybe if) I can trust the Bible’s science therefore I can trust the Bible’s morality”
Now, obviously he’s entitled to his view but I can’t help think that his logic is flawed. I have never understood how something must be true because it itself claims it’s true. To the very best of my knowledge there is literally no proof that humans and dinosaurs co-existed so that being the case the Bible is wrong assuming you believe in it literally.
He point about Creationism being taught in schools alongside with evolution not necessarily needing to teach the workings of Christianity is rubbish too. I can imagine the scene now “On the one hand we have many millions of generations of random mutation to get to this point, and on the other hand we have a God that created it and then left us to own devices, but keeps an eye on us to make sure you’re all ok.” Information does not exist in a vacuum and I do not see how you could talk about a God creating the world and not talk about any of the wider beliefs.
And anyway, why does the Christian view on Creationism only have the right to be taught? What about the Viking creation, Egyption, Roman, Babylonian, Jedi, Hindu, Sikh, Shinto and so on? Some of those were more serious than others.
Is you want Creationism to be taught in Biology first get some actual proof (which involves proving all other 32,000 (really!) religions wrong) then let’s do it. For now, let’s teach what we think is the most likely thing at this time. If it’s wrong, let’s adapt it. That’s what science is, our best guess given the information we have.
And now … on with science.
