>>Hmmmm....You could seriously accept that the world sits on an elephants
>>back??????? Or that a Kookaburra swallowed the moon and then was tricked
>>into laughing it back into the sky. Gee and I thought you were
>>intelligent but then again some people still actually believe this
>>stories and actually want Dreamtime stories taught in our schools.

>No Neil I don't believe these things. Any more than I believe that the
>World was created in six days, six thousand years ago. If you want to
>teach the second, then yes, teach the rest.

>>
>>But you see there you go again. Prove evolution wrong and I will give up
>>the theory. It is the theory which is wrong. Diversity is the correct
>>term and not evolution.

>No Neil, you playing semantics.

>> This is why I send my children to a
>>Christian school so that they get taught evolution but ONLY as a theory
>>and are also taught about creation. It is up to them to decide which
>>holds true for them.

Perhaps I could offer you a warning. Over recent years I have found myself counselling quite a number of students at UQ who went to Christian schools, and were indoctrinated with creationism. They arrived here and discovered that it wasn't even mentioned in any of their introductory biological subjects, that geologists insisted that the solar system was about 4,500 million years old, that the "big bang" is a *consequence* of general relativity, not something thought up by atheists to support evolution, and lots of other facts which conflict with what they have been taught in churches. Even worse, to their horror, they find that many of the lecturers who are teaching these are Christians - there is a higher proportion of Christians on the staff in science faculties than in most other faculties.

A number of them are so shocked that they abandon Christianity - first year of tertiary study is enough of a shock without finding out that they have been mislead for years at church.

If you don't want your children to suffer the same fate, perhaps you should get hold of some books written by evangelical Christians on science and religion and see how modern science is *not* opposed to Christianity. A starting point could be Kirsten Birkett's "Unnatural Enemies" published by Matthias Media recently.

>And what about all the other creation myths Neil. They should be taught
>those to.

My favourite is about the god Bumba. I'll dig out the whole story and post it, but the essence of it is that he had a massive attack of indigestion, and proceeded to vomit up the sun, moon, stars, ...

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