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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
Solid discussion.
Probably reading too much into it, but interesting that you titled the thread anti-religious bigotry as opposed to religious bigotry.
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I see. Sort of like "a little small" or "gay homosexual".
Anyway this was a big issue near my town. If any of you guys recall the Marrieta, Georgia incident at Lassiter high school. Ironically I got to play them in high school for 3 years in a row. Classy bunch to as they vandalized our stadium before the game though I guess I'm getting a little off topic.
Long story short, the school board refused to teach creationism but required all science textbooks regarding evolution to have a sticker stating that evolution is only a theory, even though the context of what constitutes a widely accepted scientific theory is overlooked.
I guess everyone has heard this rationalization but I agree with the fact that Creationism has not passed the criteria needed to qualify it as a scientific theory. Instead it's really a backdoor way of getting religion in the classroom. Discrimination was probably the wrong word for the guy in the quote to use, but you can't try to pass something off as science when you have only very circumstational evidence to begin with. It reminds me of a quote I heard from somewhere where someone said "Gravity is also a theory, but when jump from the top of a building, well sudenly gravity becomes very real."
If anything I think there should be a religous studies/philosophy class allowed in school that exposes students to all faiths and methods of critical thinking but of course for some thats out of the question. Then again I learned about budhism and Islam in a history class (public school) so I guess it's started.
The funny thing is living in the Bible belt I haven't met a whole lot of Christians that believe in creationism. In fact most Christians I know believe that God brought it along.