Creationism vs. Evolution

The two should be taught separately. The science in the schools, the creationism in the house of worship. I'd be curious to see a creationism should be taught in the classroom believer's answers to these questions:
- Did Noah bring dinosaurs on the ark with him?
- Why is there no mention of the Ice Age in the Bible? (unless of course what scientists believe was an ice age was actually Noah's flood)
- What sin did the dinosaurs commit that caused God to smite the entire species?

 

Buck, let me add a few more layers (and call the kid a boy so I don't need to type s/he)...

Let's say the boy woke up in the car when it pulled into the driveway. So, the child doesn't know how he got there. Doing a little research (none of which involves speaking to the parents) the child can figure out that he was driven home. This much was obvious because he's still sitting in the car.

A little more research and the child finds a receipt for the Garden State Parkway. So, now the boy knows one road that he was definitely on. A look at the car's odometer (assuming that the trip meter was clicked) tells the boy that the total mileage, subtracting the number of miles that the GSP required, the boy can roughly figure out the roads that were traveled.

Now, the child has to figure out how he got in the car. This is where you argued that the child "knows from past experience" that his parents carried him. The problem comparing this to religion is that nothing in religion is "known."

When the weather produced thunder and lightning, prior generations declared that God was angry and thus taking out that anger. We have since learned this to be false.

Prior generations and groups stated that God needed someone to perform a funky dance so that rain would come so that crops would grow. We have since learned that crunking just doesn't have this desired effect.

So, when you argue that religion is "familiar" really what you are saying is that religion just gets placed wherever things can't be explained. The problem with this is that religion doesn't really provide a fact based argument it is merely stating that Merlin did it. Quite frankly, this is lazy.

The boy is familiar with one of his parents carrying him to his car because his parents are people that he can physically see. He recognizes them as care givers. Because they were the drivers of the car it is only reasonable to assume that they were there for the child's entry into the vehicle. No such physical or logical evidence can be ascribed to religion or belief.

No one can say "God was there!" because the evidence, meaning physical and logical, doesn't back up this ascertion.