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A recent survey by Penn State researchers of high school science teachers yielded the surprising results that an estimated 16% in the U.S. believe in creationism. With this large a number potentially spreading creationist doctrine, is it any surprise that the recent documentary ”Expelled”, about those who study the concept of intelligent design is so popular? Recently in the P.O.V. blog, writer Tom Roston has questioned the film ”Expelled’-but more for it’s techniques, and implications for future documentary productions.
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What does that tell us about the differences between the teachers in the US and the UK? Or does it reflect anything at all about public opinion?
Teachers need to review Genesis and see that science supports much if not everything that is written therein, although the churches somehow screw up the bway they read it.
I mean, the Big Bang theory of 1940 was really aconfirmation of "In the beginning," which before was debated against an eternal universe.
Here is how I would teach Gen 1:1:
Gen. 1:1
In the beginning, (the Formative/Cosmology Era),
God, (the Uncaused First Cause, or the Dark Energy which pre-existed the material Universe, perhaps),
created... (all that which has followed the Big Bang from the singularity of Planck Time which consisted of
Seven Stages:
1) The Inflation Era
2) The Quark Era
3) Hadron Era
4) Lepton Era
5) Nucleosynthesis Era
6) Opaque Era
7) Matter Era,...
in an enormous Einsteinian energy transformation, E = mC^2),...
...
the (matter composing the)
heaven (beyond the Solar System)
and the (accretion disk which congealed into the planet)
earth.
(Gen 1:1)
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(This is on topic, right???)