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Originally Posted by Sircarp
You forgot the lands of my forefathers: West Virginia.
To take some edge off of it, America was founded by the religious nuts that Europe wanted rid of. Puritans, quakers, etc. so some of the fundamentalism and strict morals can. be attributed to our founded religious nutters
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Our forefathers in America were seeking freedom from religious persecution. I forget if they were protestant or catholic. However, Times HAVE changed. A scientist once said, "At first when you get into science, it pulls you away from religion. Then as you go deeper, science only takes you back to religion."
It's tremendously hard for humans to comprehend everything in the universe. Some say religion was made to comfort people when they thought about death. Some say it was made for social control. Indeed, organized religion is the perfect 'hivemind' or system to make everyone in society think alike, and shun those who think differently.
Evolution does occur, no doubt. But in my view, if Earth formed from thousands or millions of particles of space dust coming together and slowly building up, what gave it a molten core? A mantle? A crust? Water? What caused particles to suddenly form organelles? Then cells? What made cells come together collectively to form multicellular organisms? What made these cells grant sentience to a being?
Science can explain a lot. And Religion can explain a lot too, but in the end, there will ALWAYS be holes left. Teaching the students that the two theories can go hand in hand, instead of against each other may help. Tolerance only leads to advancement.