Posted on 06/09/2010 2:59:41 PM PDT by kronos77
(Reuters) - The Russian Orthodox Church called Wednesday for an end to the "monopoly of Darwinism" in Russian schools, saying religious explanations of creation should be taught alongside evolution.
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Liberals said they would fight efforts to include religious teaching in schools. Russia's dominant church has experienced a revival in recent years, worrying rights groups who say its power is undermining the country's secular constitution.
"The time has come for the monopoly of Darwinism and the deceptive idea that science in general contradicts religion. These ideas should be left in the past," senior Russian Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion said at a lecture in Moscow.
"Darwin's theory remains a theory. This means it should be taught to children as one of several theories, but children should know of other theories too."
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has proved divisive in the United States, where Protestant groups promote Creationism, the idea that God made the world as described in the Bible, and the "intelligent design" view positing an unnamed creator.
Hilarion said the theory that one species could evolve into another had never been proved. Children "should know about the religious picture, the creation of the world, which is common to all the monotheistic religions," he said.
DANGEROUS IDEA
Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a veteran dissident, told Reuters Russian liberals would fight any attempt to introduce religious teaching into Russian classrooms, particularly in science.
"It's a dangerous idea and we will do all we can to stop it," she said. "We overcame Communism as the state ideology and certain forces want to replace it with Orthodox Christianity."
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But don’t they have a State Church? The Orthodox Church occupying that status?
But don’t they have a State Church? The Orthodox Church occupying that status?
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If you like, I can give you a list of Bible prophecies made by God that have actually happened just so you know that God is, indeed, omniscient and omnipresent and knows past, present and future and knew thousands of years ago that there would be a Russian invasion of Israel. I know it may cave your entire world in, but before you start calling others desperate, you need to get the facts and the fact is is that God, not me, said that Russia will invade Israel.
You are one who is desperately and dangerously grasping at straws, grasping at anything you can to deny what God said because of some strange fixation om a country that could not give a rat's a** about you or what happens to you.
Frankly, its bizarre, and DESPERATE.
No, technically they do not.
This is what should be done: Darwinism theory should be explained, as logically as possible. Then, discussions should ensue about why so many thoughtful people believe that evolution is IMPOSSIBLE. Debate should not be feared, but it is. God forbid that students be encouraged to think for themselves before they have been brainwashed by origins demagogues. Bob
Creationism is not a scientific theory and is an intellectual dead end that leads nowhere in terms of use or discovery.
If you want to instruct students in science in science class (a radical and novel idea to some apparently), then keep out religious dogma. It has no place there. Teach religion in religion class, that is where it belongs.
Stalin may have lost his faith because he read Darwin, but then he supported Lysenko, whose view of evolution was quite different and illogical.
Lysenkoism was just as unscientific as creationism, but dressed in the language of the ‘theology’ of communism.
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