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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another poster from page 1. Creationism aside, God aside, science vs. faith aside (and not totally sure why the two have to be mutually exclusive), whatever you believe, why do you feel the need to foist those beliefs on your children? Why are you afraid of them making up their own minds when they are able to?[/quote]Anybody going to at least try and answer this one?
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So by this reasoning, surely you must be teaching your children the creation myths (er, sorry... facts) of ancient Sumeria, and the Greeks and Romans, Indians, etc. alongside Christian creationism, and the scientific theory of evolution, and then letting them make up their own minds, right? Because wouldn't you be some kind of hypocrite if you are trying to foist your beliefs on your children by only teaching them about Christian creationism and evolution and letting them make up their own mind based on incomplete information?[/quote]

Much of religion is culture. I have no knowledge of most Creation myths, so i will teach my kids the one i know, along with how we interpret it. That's not hypocritical, that's Parenting 101 to teach your kids what you know and believe in the world. I grew up in a Protestant faith, with my father a much more conservative person believing the earth to be a few thousand years old and the dinosaur bones a test of faith from God, and my mother a much more normal faith. I was a pretty vocal creationist until I was about ten, at which point my mother made the point that "Christian" and "scientific" were not 100% mutually exclusive, and didn't the story from Genesis sound an awful lot like the Big Bang and evolution in a few lines?

Frankly, I'm not sure what kind of angry fishing trip you're on. I'm pretty much a private atheist myself, but the fact that people have faith doesn't bug me. Now that some of those people of faith try to ram their particular version of religion and science down everyone's throats (cough cough *Texas Textbooks* cough cough) pisses me off.

I would have explained to my kids right in front of the lady if it felt appropriate. There are many wild eyed Creationists who would sooner go on a ten minute harangue about the evils of atheism and I'd probably like to avoid that if I could.[/quote]

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