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It's illegal for public schools to teach anything religious. If it involves religion then the staff cannot teach it as fact. Speak about it or talk about a concept of any religion yes, but not teach as fact. Only talk about. And that's mostly in history when the teacher is talking about the origins or when the religion started to become popular and the most likely reason it became popular. That's how I live in the Bible Belt yet still got taught evolution in biology. My teacher even said "Many of you believe that humans just popped on the world a few thousand years ago but that's not how it happened. That's not true." My best friend got really upset and started cussing at her under her breath about how the teacher doesn't have any religion.

I'm sorry, but the teacher is right. Using uranium dating and maybe carbon dating, we know for a fact that the earth has existed for billions of years. I guess the truth is too bright for some people.

73, I don't mean to disrespect your best friend, but she must honestly be really stupid to actually believe that some almighty "God" created humans. Evolution has been proven, and the only "proof" of "God" is writing found in stone. I know, my grandma is a crazy Christian, and won't accept the fact that anyone could have written whatever shit they wanted in stone, it doesn't necessarily make it true.

@27. No. Actually, nobody of any degree of education, including and in fact especially the church, believed that the Earth was flat by the late medieval period. Our collective myths include the ridiculous notions that 1) people believed that the earth was flat (the ancient Greeks had composed a mathematical proof for a spherical Earth, including a reasonable estimate of its size) and 2) that the church was anti learning (certain high profile conflicts, particular that with Galileo, have colored history's view of the church in the sciences, but it was in fact the most important sponsor and disseminater of scientific knowledge in the western world during much of that period)

Haha, my friend (an atheist, as am I) was trying to help me deal with my crazy religious grandmother, who laughed in my face all three times I tried to explain evolution to her. His words to me were "everyone has the right to their own opinion of what is right. They're entitled to think that God exists, and we're entitled to think that they're f*cking stupid"