Roll of the dice election

[NikFu S.]

Originally Posted by gstape

Thats fine and I have no problem with that point of view in public schools. After all as you say there are a lot of people that believe evolution makes the most sense. But teach it as a theory, not as truth or fact.

It is taught as theory. Highly plausible theory.

But why not teach creation / intelligent design as another possibility?

Parental responsibility. This increases the school's burden greatly, not to mention there are far too many variations in faiths. In my high school we did read Genesis, but it was "taught" purely as literature, in a mythology elective.
There are too many people who do not want other people force feeding children a belief system.

After all that makes sense to the 2 billion people in this world that call themselves christians (including 70% of Americans). And among those 2 billion people there are a bunch of brilliant ones.

Source for your statistic? The Census Bureau apparently does not record this one.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popdata.html

I would want my kids to be tought about the world, the people who live in this world and what they believe (again you don't teach as truth and probably not in a lot of depth). Isn't that at least in part what education is about?

This kind of information has little value outside of the home/congregation. It has little or no use in the career field. Ignoring that, the majority of people acquire the basic principles of their regions major faith whether they like it or not. Teaching it at length is either redundant or pointless depending on parties involved and I state once again there are schools devoted to indoctrination. If this is important to a parent, they will enroll their kid in a Christian (or whatever) school.

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