Lot of controversy is going on about the evolution theory and the biblical theory of independent design. I can not understand how religion can be taught under the heading science or vice versa.
I read a lot about people saying that brought up with religious belief that God created mankind, evolution theory should not be taught in science classes as the independent design theory has enough proof as it is written in Bible. They can not accept the evolution theory which contradicts the biblical theory as to how the world was created.
I am not very much aware of the independent design as I have never read bible, but one thing is certain that I know that evolution theory based on which the the whole biological science is built has lot of proof and it should be taught under science.
I do believe in God and Super natural power or what ever, but that does not stop me from studying science as I am clear that Science and Religion are in different level. When one is science the other should definitely come under philosophy. My religious belief does not stop me from studying science and I don't understand where the controversy is.
Why should independent design be taught instead of the theory of evolution in the heading Science. Let the evolution theory be taught under science as it has scientific proof and the independent theory can be taught under philosophy.
We in India have so many philosophies which just exist side by side and we never have any confusion or moral guilt while studying science.
Just changing the curriculam in school and not allowing the study of theory of evolution is another form of fundamentalism.
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first time i am hearing the expression ' independent design'
Still remember the exact place we were walking when my dad said that ramayana is a story;not said as much as hinted at a possibility.I was devastated for months on end.Religion, philosophy, evolution due take a knock at our consciousness when they cross each others path.And they do when we are quite young.I dont blame the US system of compartmentalisation. In India we serve everything as a single dish!
There is a big controversy going on in Pensylvania state (US) in a school, where the board of the school consisting of parents and common people,and also many students do not want the evolution theory to be taught in the school at all. Many teachers are pained since it is the basic building block of science. Actually in some of the States in America as recently as 1960s evolutionary theory was not taught as they consider it against the christian philosophy. Coming back to Pensylvania the case went to court and the court said, constitution of america has cleary kept religion away from governance, it (independent design meaning that some super natural power (God) created man as a separate entity) should not be taught in school as science. The controvery is still raging, where the head of the state is clearly mixing politics with religion if you keenly observe. Hence my concern.
The concept of religion shouldn't be taught in schools. Evolution is science(with proof). The only proof of god's existance is faith.
If we start teaching religion in schools, we would have to cover all of it, even the smallest religion. All these religions contradict each other & it is best that religion is left out of schools, if not from this planet.
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