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I actually once worked with someone who refused to even touch a copy of Darwin's "Origin of Species" that I brought him in....He denounced it with the devastating comment of "That's an evil book"....ah the joys of the teachings of the presbyterian church eh?
PS Don't shout certain words....if your arguement ain't strong enough screaming about it won't help any.
Apart from anything else, in the absence of the sun for the earth to turn its face towards in rotating every 24 hours, what can the word 'day' conceivably mean?
It was made a long time ago, but I wonder whether any of you has seen the Spencer Tracy film 'Inherit the Wind'. He played the part of the defence lawyer in the Scopes 'Monkey trial', set in Tennessee in 1925. Scopes was an actual teacher who taught evolution in school, bringing hellfire down on his head from the Bible-thumping fundamental creationists. The lawyer decided actually to use the Bible to bolster his argument by raising the very points I made above. If a day was not 24 hours, what was it? A week, a century, a millennium, a million years?
All he got in reply was, in effect: "If the Bible says there was light, then there was light and let the absence of a light-source go hang!"
That's the point really...you can't argue with someone who says such things and nor can you prevent them from believing them. The truly appalling thing is that in many states in the USA - Tennessee amongst them, I suspect - the teaching of evolution has, once again, been forbidden!
You also claim "the religious beliefs of a particular church should not be hammered into the minds of children". That's what parents and schools do worldwide. I'm with you...it should be stopped. If it were, the world would probably be at peace within a generation. So far as I know, there aren't any suicide-bombing evolutionists!