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Why sure. . . .we should also, of course (in order to be consistent) teach that Santa Clause is a real person who lives at the north pole, the evidence for the Easter bunny and the Great Pumpkin, the life cycle of tooth fairies, gnomes and gremlins, and that the U.S. Government is a "working body".
"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle." (letter to Robert Rush, 1813).
The same reason the land-based ancestors of whales don't exist.
The same reason triceratops doesn't exist.
Why? If they survived the ice age, they should all still exist. Maybe you just haven't looked hard enough for them. Or perhaps we came from some other planet to this one.
Creationism, along with the basic myths of all religions, should be taught in a class on pseudo science and other myths like hard work will make you rich.
The Big Bang theory should not be taught in schools either...poof, we have a universe out of thin air. Is this not just as absurd?
From your post, it would seem that a basic course in physics might be in order. Although you were right about one thing, the Big Bang theory doesn't refute a certain creationist narratives.
Why? If they survived the ice age, they should all still exist. Maybe you just haven't looked hard enough for them. Or perhaps we came from some other planet to this one.
So let me get this straight: are you suggesting that every species that has ever existed still exists? Is that really your argument?
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