Reply #1: One is a religious belief, [View All]

[Tangerine LaBamba]

one is a scientific fact.

Sure, they can exist together, but you don't hear the people who accept evolution as a reality going all batshit crazy because the Garden Of Eden people are teaching that theory in their churches.

It's sort of like marriage - there is the religious ceremony, which has no legal standing, and there is the civil ceremony, the signing of the marriage certificate, that is the legal one. They certainly have nothing to do with one another, but if you don't have the signed and sealed marriage certificate, you're not legally married, just as if you have a big Catholic wedding in a church, it doesn't matter at all, because - again - without the signed and sealed marriage certificate - you're not legally married.

i don't care who teaches the Garden of Eden story, but I do not want religion taught in public schools as if it's factual, because it's simply a fairy tale, and it only belongs in a Creative Writing class.