Exactly how do they inflict anti-faith beliefs? Not saying anything is not inflicting anti-faith belief, it is mere silence (which I believe is golden). The absence of faith inculcated in the classrooms of America will strengthen whatever faith is taught at home. Teachers do not spend their time trying to squash the faith out of religious children- they have a hard enough time teaching them to read and write.
As for evolution it is not a religion. It is, as YOU say, a theory. Do you put a theory on the same footing as God? Is God a theory for you? If so I say bravo- that would mean you believe in him until evidence comes along that will disprove your belief. And if that evidence comes along, your world will not be crushed, you will not be sad- NO- for it was just a theory, and out of the failure of one you shape another to fit the facts until you find that one too, is false, and so on, in an endless chain of rational exploration. Bravo fellow free-thinker- I think the same way, almost. I think I will suspend my judgment until some proof comes along- but there- SEE how close we are. This is a breakthrough. Of course there is, so far as I can see, no fossils of God, no dna of God sucked by insects and trapped in amber, no real hard evidence to support your theory- but if you should come up with some proof (that meets the tests of the scientific method, I know that's a problem- it's so much easier to convince the choir than it is to get a scientist to believe you- but there you are) then I am sure your God theory might make it to the textbooks. |
