[BC] Teaching Creationism

[Richard Fry]

Lamar Owen wrote:
>Using the Bible or any other religious text to teach history, language,
>or science is not favoring the teachings of one religion over another;
>it is simply using an authoritative source as a textbook for a subject
>in which the source is authoritative.

Neither the source nor the concepts of the Bible are PROVABLY 
authoritative--that has to be taken on religious faith.  Creationist 
teachings based on the Bible, then, are religious in nature rather than 
scientific.  Concepts based on the beliefs of a particular religious faith 
and its documents should not be used in the public (really, any) schools to 
teach a scientific subject in the first place.  But in the case of public 
schools, that would be a violation of current US laws.

Studying the Bible as an historical document along with the Koran and/or 
other religious texts in a course on comparative religions is another 
matter, but that isn't what the Creationists are seeking.

>... the Bible is written in clear, unambiguous language; etc

Examples of the many, many exceptions to that statement are found throughout 
the Bible.  Do you believe that the Chapter of Revelation is clear and 
unambiguous, for instance?

RF