Good old British compromise

[beagle]

You can talk about it, just make clear it's rubbish.

[Opsa]

Fascinating, the way the arguements go on and on in the typical fashion.

The best we can do as parents is to teach our children to listen to both sides of any arguement and then to judge for themselves.

[Griffin NoName]

Particularly like the last para

Questions about creationism should provide an "opportunity to explain or explore why they are not considered to be scientific theories".

[Opsa]

Ya gotta love that phrasing. God save the queen!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

I loved this comment:

What school is this, Hogwarts? Will they be teaching astrology, alchemy and phrenology as well?

[Sibling Chatty]

Since SOMEBODY in the class will bring it up almost anywhere...give the teacher the ability to do a compare/contrast model and state that one may draw their own conclusions but that for the sake of science education, the scientific processes will be emphasized.

Banning the discussion of Biblical creationism will be a problem. Banning the teaching of scientific evolution will be a problem. However banning the YEC's and their 6000 year bullshit? That's got to be pointed out as completely unworkable in any known educational process, and best left to faith education alone.

Give the teacher the right to say: Science teaches us this... Your faith may say this... or that... or that a glob of supernatural pasta did it, and that's your right to believe it. For the purpose of this class, however, you'll learn the science. It's a science class, after all.

Then, back the teacher up against the whackadoo parents!

[Griffin NoName]

I fail to understand why creationsim or ID should ever have been considered for inclusion in the science corriculum. It's perfectly obvious they should be within the languages faculty, if anywhere.

[Swatopluk]

I demand the inclusion of all the nice mythologies where the world was created by lurid sex acts.
Not to forget the subset where all life came from cutting off a certain part of the male god involved
What do you think made the Nile so fertile

[anthrobabe]

Notice how several put 'theory' in capital letters.

slack jawed
mouth breathers

[Pachyderm]

What do you think made the Nile so fertile? Devil2


The Pharoah choking the chicken in the temple at Karnak?

Though I will grant you that left Nefertari with a difficult problem....

[Swatopluk]

Seth hacked his brother Osiris to pieces and threw a certain part into the river. Isis had to put him together again to father her son Horus, iirc.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Wasn't easier just to get into the river (or even then they didn't believe in that kind of silly tale )?

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I think I saw a decent answer to this recently (while at work, of all places).
It ought to be taught in a comparative religion class, along with those other, more interesting, ways the world was born.

[beagle]

Religious Education is a subject in UK schools. When I was a kid in the 60s it was mainly Old and New Testament, which covered the two big religions of the time Judaism and Christianity.
By the late 70s that was a subset of all the religions in the UK (due mainly to Commonwealth immigration) so RE covered most of the "top ten" religions. 

I agree it's the place for creation myths, but I doubt that will satisfy the creationists.  They don't want to see their theory as only one of an interesting set of stories, but as the only contender against evolution. In my opinion RE classes are destructive of religion, in that they destroy any air of exclusivity of correctness.

Strangely enough RE at school didn't cover the Egyptian myths, and any photographs of hieroglyphics or murals tended to have strategically placed captions.

[Swatopluk]

The old myth stuff was covered mostly in history classes (Greek and Roman myths naturally in the language classes).
A bit of general paganism in RE* in the last 1 or 2 years at school. Most of it I knew from other sources long before (hey, I actually fed some original sources to the teacher).

*guided tour through different hell models, so to say