Can I Teach Evolution In Your Church?
When I saw this button, I just about fell over laughing. It’s a great example of how a well considered phrase can reveal the weakness in an opponent’s argument. It asks:
So, can I teach evolution in your church?
What a brilliant reversal of the Creationist campaign to force public schools to teach religious faith in high school science classrooms! The Creationists want us to pay taxes to teach religion in our schools, so why not have the reverse take place, and have churches pay for biology teachers to come and teach evolution in Sunday School?
The answer is obvious. It’s not the business of public schools to tell churches what they can preach on Sundays. Of course, that’s the point - the two realms are separate. Creationist Christians have no more right to push their religious beliefs in public school science classes than science teachers have the right to educate Sunday School students about how evolution works.
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