How did this thread derail into a discussion about Religion in Schools? If you want my honest opinion both evolution and religious should be taught in schools as electives only because for 99.9% of us, they have no bearing on our future career paths.
Literally the problem was never God being taught or not taught in schools, the problem was that one belief in universal origin was replaced by another, it's hard to teach your kids religion these days when they are taught by the all-powerful, all-knowing government who never ever lies the opposite and then have the schools say you as a parent are just wrong or stupid for being religious.
Evolution is just a theory formulated by scientist for how the earth was created based on the evidence they have, my response to that as a Christian was to acknowledge it but still believe in God's existence all the same because if an omnipotent such as God exist it opens a bunch of existential questions that throw all the evidence for evolution out the window.
The problem however is that I never faced the 'stigma' and social isolation of being peer pressured by a public school, faith is about faith to me and without opposition there is no true conviction in the face of adversity, but that being said religion isn't suffering because the theory of evolution exists, it's suffering because the structure of public schools discourages any and all free thinking of any subjects they teach.
Evolution is a theory that nominally would just be taught to a few individuals where it would be relevant in their prospective fields of work, they are planning on moving into not really relevant for the vast majority of us and yet it's being taught as a virtual religion coast to coast for the masses to consume and since public school over church is mandatory and a vast majority of a kids friends are taught in that same atmosphere we are naturally becoming a society that not just discourages religion but in some cases scorns it.
They literally swapped one form of alleged indoctrination for another.
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Moving on can we all get back to the subject of the thread rather than this religious derail?
The idea evolutionary theory is threat to religion only exist in the heads of people who take the timelines of any holy text or scroll or book or shaman literally.
Instead of, you know, being a massive, multi-millennia game of telephone and retelling of natural events with unknowable details clouding people's view, and where shamanistic/scientific/navigational knowledge ended, gods/demons/dragons began. Plus as survival guides; the Jews didn't know what tricanosis or shellfish poisoning were, but they knew not eating pork or shellfish prevented some ailments others got, for example.
Also, well, need to factor in naturally occuring DMT, mushroom, vapor cave, and cannabanoid experiences on shamanistic rituals/stories. That, and well, the Younger Dryas and Burkle crater impact epochs/events, and things like the Bosphorus opening up, or the Missoula Floods and glacial mass outflow events fucking the ocean's salinity up and slowly may ocean gyres that brought tropical water up to northern climates. It's why even Native Americans have flood myths, independent of European contacts, same with Aboriginal Aussie's too. And it wasn't just 1 flood event either; the Biblical one was likely Burkle crater event fucking everything that faced/lead into the Indian Ocean, while the Younger Dryas is likely Atlantis and pre-Dynastic Egypt was the only thing that kept the records intact via their priests, who said 'modern Egypt is just a fragment of a once much greater civilization during the Time of the Gods'.
Human history is much, much older and more complex than any holy book says.
And that's not a mark against their being a divine, it's just the divine exists on the other side of both death, and maybe the lightspeed/temporal barrier (Accuirbe drives will be an interesting test of at least the lightspeed bit).
Though I disagree that the theory of evolution should not be taught to everyone, regardless of 'need', because it is absolutely applicable to everyday life; anyone who has a garden, or who owns a pet, should understand why those things evolved to the point they have, if they want to care for them correctly.