I was talking about the science stuff.

And what you mentioned about that drug addict. I do agree that it's silly he'd get kicked off an anti-tour for that, as it is a perfect example that everything is possible with willpower.

This is the effect of pushing Christians to far. If you wish to have some less of a huge repercussion you atheists must allow some freedoms, and stop the lawsuits from being able to be filed. The pendulum is swinging.

I suggest openly and frankly that you pass a law recognizing, at the federal level, that there is a difference between government backing of a religion, and usage of government property for religious purposes. This would take the steam out of our side of correcting the imbalance, prevent extremism on our side from dominating for many years (as your side has done for to long) and would return parity and sanity to the entire process.

You have science classes and religion classes, simple as that.

"Thus modern science was born from this ancient religious spirit.. as the means to process of understanding our world.."

Very correct, in fact till the 15th century, science and christianity went hand in hand, with the start of humanism, the reformation this bond broke. Ever since the age of Enlightment, christianity has become more and more irrational and..

Also to append:

I believe that forcing Evolution upon children, and only evolution, to be a incorrect method of schooling.

I would prefer a lesson which says, to whit there is many theories of how man and animals came to be. The three most popular theories, according to how many believe them are: Creationism, Evolution, and Intelligent Design.

Creationism is the belief that God, or a God in the case of religions with more than one deity, created man kind and all of the animal kingdom, as well as all other aspects of life on Earth. Some aspects of this are more generalized, with a Gaea or similar natured being creating life. The 3 major religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all believe the same deity created mankind.

Evolution has been more of a recent scientific development, dating back several hundred years, but championed by Charles Darwin into the mainstream spotlight. Evolution holds that all life formed from the same basic building blocks, and slowly grew from this initial life into a diverse series of species, slowly changing how they looked, acted, and such. Humans for instance are supposed to have evolved from an Ape like species. An excellent example of close evolutionary cousins are the common horse, and the donkey. These two species are so closely related that they can interbreed, resulting in mules.

Intelligent Design is commonly thought of as a 'back door' to evolution. However it can take on aspects of it's own belief. Many non-religious persons actually ascribe to intelligent design as thinking an alien species created humans and all life on earth. An excellent example of this is in the books 2001, 2010, and follow on books of the Space Odessy series.

I would go further than a student that can correctly speak about the belief structure of any of the three listed above should be graded against the belief structure of the three above. It is not impossible to separate a specific religion out and just include pertinent facts of religion in general from the strongest few aspects.

Is this so horrible to teach all three and allow people to decide on their own? Or should society push one not of your favor upon you, your friends, and your children?

or just tell them wich one you are telling, and that there are others as well, children will be educated on the differences at home anyways? or in church, or whatev

and if u say there are others, it s different then just presenting it as the utter truth.

i think it s good for "extreme" christians to know about the other theories, wouldnt you want to know, and have thought about it?
or would ya just be flabbergasted or shout away at the other person "nonono, yr so wrong >.<"

as i think it s good for nonchristians to know smt about some "christian stuff", like why we have certain holidays, what stories paintings and poems are based on, where certain proverbs came from etc . cuz western society is/was heavily based on it, and some background/history never hurts.

"I believe that forcing Evolution upon children, and only evolution, to be a incorrect method of schooling."

There's no other scientific correct theory. I agree that teenagers should know what creationism is, but they have to know it doesn't make any sense either

@Einstein - The three major religeons are Christianity, Islam and Hinduism

If you are going to teach creationism and intelligent design in !!!!!SCIENCE CLASS!!!!! we should also teach destructionism where god created all the universe and as to make sure he didn't make anything unnecisary he created Chuck Norris to give him/her a second opinion. So god let Chuck kill all the animals he didn't like.chuck being chuck, he started roundhouse kicking every thing until god realised what a mistake he had made and sent Chuck to the future to become walker: Texas ranger to control crime in the mid-west USA.

no tell me that it doesn't sound just as rediculus as other religeos storys you have heard. Evolution is teached at schools because religeon isn't needed anymore to explain lives to people.
Evolution is the most logical of all explanations and has been backed up by molecular biology, where changes in a bacterias DNA structure occur much more rapidly than  in the macro world because of the high reproduction rate. Why do you think there are now tuberculoses causing bacteria that are resisting medication? Did an almighty something sudenly give the bacteria a shield or did the bacteria adapt to the drug by changing their genetic structure through evolution to resist a poison that is pumped into their body.

I have no problem with religeous people but it shows how easily a person can be made to believe anything. Einstein I wonder if you even know much about other religeons. Did you choose christianity because like or believe in those teachings the most or were you forced do believe in it by your parents. If I was religeous I'd probably be Budist because I symphatise with It's teachings the most.

"Is this so horrible to teach all three and allow people to decide on their own? Or should society push one not of your favor upon you, your friends, and your children?"

You're not reading other peoples' posts, politician. In science class you have evolution and in religion class you have creationism. Make separate exams if you like and there's no fuss.

Anyway squeezing religion into science classes only shows how insecure people feel about creationism.
Has anyone ever offered evolution to be lectured in religion classes? No. Academics are clear-headed and they aren't obsessed with Darwin. That's why politicians don't see any point in kissing their asses.

Actually I created destructionism as a joke but now that I think of it.... that's what i'm going to believe in.

Why have religion classes? If someone wants to learn the ways of christianity, go to church... or hinduism - go to a temple (I do, and I'm atheist - they don't mind me at all, and I don't judge them at all, using religion as a base).
I wasted a lot of time at school, having to study maps that various "prophets" and other VIP-christians took, as well as some of their actions, when I could have been doing more maths, music, sport or something else useful and beneficial.