It would, to me, be a far more fascinating experiment to not teach these ideas at all and see what people choose to believe on their own.

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Oh uh, more on-topic: it'll never work. Public schools in this country conform to policies set by universally adhered-to laws that are enforced by one body. There too many religious faiths, not to mention offshoots, you cannot just say, "LEMME SPEAK TO THE LEADER OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION" and discuss a change in the teaching policies in their youth groups.

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To be more serious, I do think that if we're going to teach things of this nature in schools, we should give our children a complete education. It's also the democratic way: for our public school system to only teach an admittedly narrow range of belief structures is, as far as I can see, unconstitutional, not to mention horrific.

sounds good

no one should just 'accept' this or the other based on other people's ideas.
if you base your life ideas based on other people's experiences, how do you know for yourself if you're right, if you haven't experienced/thought about it yourself

so teach that everything in science is theory, as we know it is (it's only right, some think of some theories as fact, when they're theories with evidence {or sometimes without sufficient evidence})
and teach every major thiest/athiest/whateverelse idea, let ppl analyse for themselves rather than treating them like idiots

also teach an unbiased philosophy so that they all can analyse it
an unbiased education sounds good

Your comparing apples with oranges. Noone is forced to go to Bible study, whereas we are all mostly forced to send our kids to public school.

If bible study were required for all people then yes I would agree that we teach evolution there also.

you won't believe it but in atheist europe religion and bible lessons in public schools are very common. which isn't really a bad thing...

Yeah that's true, and also budhism and such religions are often teached. Not so very extensive, but at least some basics.

let's make it a school subject called "ethics" that covers all mono- and polytheistic religions, atheims and its many manifestations, superstition, bla blu and everyone will be equally unhappy, at least they are equal by then and equally "taught".

Agreed ^^.

But there is one thing everyone keeps mentioning: The Bible. If everyone should be taught how it dictates, whats stopping every other religion to be taught?

Thus if the bible is taught, isn't it only fair that not only evolution but every other religious belief of how we came to be also be taught?

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True, it's definitely not all that bad. Mainly because they cover a lot of different kinds of religion. Even atheism got debated eventhough our teacher was Christian (the European way).

What they did not do though was explain certain problems with religion. Mind you this was a Christian school I attended to, so it doesn't surprise me all that much.

But if we're going to talk about evolution and even it's problems as far as there are any, which I'm sure are discussed in class nowadays anyways, then we need to talk about the issues with religion as well.

I have yet to come across a book used in schools that claims to have full knowledge of the evolutionary processes.

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Nope, I do not agree

Education is neither a right nor a privilage
Education is a duty
Since parents are obliged to send their children to school , they should also be forbidden to expose their children to false theories