Religios ppl in my biology class

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So im going to this american school right with full of religios people. I come from Sweden where you get shot if you believe in god (not really but kinda). So i was suprised when everyone was serious about believing in god. First i thought it was a joke and laughed. However i respect them and dont disturb them in their...prayers right?

Anyway, so i had biology class today and my teacher started to talk about the subject about how old human life is (the very first human-like species). He said it was way way way back and said a very large number (dont remember what) and this one girl was like "was that before adam and eva". I was like :dozey: and the teacher was lke :borg: and told her that this is science class. After a quite agressive discussion between the students and the teacher it appeared to me that most of the student thought life began with Adam and Eva. My teacher accept their viewpoints but was still a bit irretated because it disturbed the teaching he gave, he cant say anything without someone correcting him according to the bible. We are reading a science book not the ****ing bible ppl!!!

Im like the only one in the class that doesnt believe (and the teacher) so i get kinda favoratism :smoking: .

Is it like this in all american schools? Do you all SERIOUSLY believe in god and that shit that much?

One tip, dont go to sweden...:imu:
 
Time to pull up yer socks up and get some faith. Or just chance your biology exam with answers of biblical proportions.
 
Bang your teacher.

Also, note that a percentage of Christians actually accept evolution.

D:

-Angry Lawyer
 
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run ravioli run for the hills ..jeez I went to a catholic highschool and no one was liek that ..not even the teachers ..some of who were priests ffs
 
Show your classmates what a wonderful existance of sex before marriage they're missing. I mean, if a God exists, and he wants us to be happy, there's a reason he made sex so damn good.

Bang them all.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Not all American schools are like that. There are plenty of Americans who don't believe in god. However, many do......many don't even believe in evolution....

I find it best never to bring religious discussion up.
 
Create Jurassic Park and trap them in it. Then they'll agree with you. And be dead.

Obviously have sex with them all first.
 
I weep for America.

Yes, americans are a lot more religious than people in your country. But whether they are biblical literalists like the kids in your class seem to be, varies quite a lot. What part of America are you in?
 
Um I'm in a fairly religious place and my biology class was mostly catholic (including me) due to chance/ethnic make up and no one was like that in class. Looks like they did it just to stall class is my guess.
 
Yep. Additionally, the catholic church doesn't take genesis literally, therefore we mackerel-snappers don't have much problem with evolution. I myself take this stance regarding the evolution/creation debate: Evolution has a lot of evidence behind it, but if you're going to believe in the existance of an omnipotent, omniscient diety, then what would stop that diety from simply making the world with a bunch of fossils already in it? I mean, if God just went *poof* and created the universe, then he could damned well make it any way he wanted; this reasoning is unassailable because unless one is omniscient oneself, you're unlikely to be able to contradict it.
 
NorphTehDwarf said:
Yep. Additionally, the catholic church doesn't take genesis literally, therefore we mackerel-snappers don't have much problem with evolution. I myself take this stance regarding the evolution/creation debate: Evolution has a lot of evidence behind it, but if you're going to believe in the existance of an omnipotent, omniscient diety, then what would stop that diety from simply making the world with a bunch of fossils already in it? I mean, if God just went *poof* and created the universe, then he could damned well make it any way he wanted; this reasoning is unassailable because unless one is omniscient oneself, you're unlikely to be able to contradict it.
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Which would make God a liar. But God is perfect and doesn't lie, that's a human character flaw.

And "not taking Genesis literally" is nonsense. Can you just make up rules about what to take literally and what not to? It's in the Bible. Therefor, it's the word of God. And God still doesn't lie, so Genesis happened.

There's no reason why Genesis is supposed to be taken any less literally than the teachings of Jesus or the ten commandments. Not taking Genesis literally is just because Genesis does not make any sense. But if God could have made fossils to deceive humans for no particular reason, he could very well have created the universe by the batshit insane story of Genesis.
 
This reminds me of the bumper item I saw the other day. Most Christians put that damned fish symbol on their car, like we really care.

Well, Take that fish, add feet, and under it, it said, "Darwinsm" It was quite funny..I laughed.

Anyway, every time people buck up to bitch about how the school is teaching stuff opposing the Bible, I just remind them of the "Seperation of Church and State" and they usually shut up. If not, the teacher usually just booted their asses out.

Ahh, the times I actually MISS school.
 
CyberPitz said:
This reminds me of the bumper item I saw the other day. Most Christians put that damned fish symbol on their car, like we really care.
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That's supposed to be the secret symbol, so that the Romans can't persecute them.

LOL guess what, now that it's common knowledge, the Romans know!

Wait for an Italian taxi driver to ram them off the road!
 
No one ever said anything about religion in my biology class. Actually the girl who sat next to me brought it up once but never said anything to the teacher.
 
Ha ha, I sure wouldn't want to be in your place man. Here it's quite the opposite. When I was in high school, in "religious education class" a guy would ask the teacher questions like: "if Adam & Eve were white where did different colored people come from?" or "Do you believe in aliens?":E . He would ask uncomfortable questions like this every time, Gotta love that guy:LOL: . And of course the teacher would respond to those questions with incomprehensible religious bable:upstare: .
 
Ravioli - if I was your science teacher, I probably would have explained rather gently to her that this is a science class, not a theology lesson and if she made any protest beyond that, I would have just told her quite bluntly to leave the classroom.
To quote Supernintendo Chalmers - "God has no place within these walls."
PvtRyan said:
Which would make God a liar. But God is perfect and doesn't lie, that's a human character flaw.
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Pretty much took the words from my mouth.
I cannot fathom why people would try and defend the existence of fossils with the tired "God put them there to test our faith" counter.
How childish is your God - and it IS childish - that He has to try and trick and trip up His creations? An omniscient being would not need to put you through silly little tests to determine whether you were a worthy person - an omniscient being by definition, would know already.
 
When I took biology or any science class christians always respected what was being taught. They knew that they needed to learn what was being taught to understand the lessons even if they didn't believe everything. It was not a bible class so they didn't expect the lesson to change for them.

There were no conflicts between the students even if the topic came up. If it came up it was simply a discussion on the different beliefs and what if (evolution and God).
 
"God has no place within these walls, just like facts have no place in organized religion."

I recommend that if it ever comes up again, ask them if that means they believe that the old testament is factual.

Then ask them why they don't kill nonbelievers, which the old testament (as reaffirmed by the new testament) demands that you do in order to escape hell.
 
Darwin was the man, give anyone who disses him a slap. To be fair at my Secondary School (none of this high school business) we had a class called "R.E." (religious education) and we were as wary of the ideas as Christians are to evoloution I guess. Though we were right to be wary. =)
 
There is only 1 religious person in my entire school, every one else is "meh" towards religion..

Someone was talking about the DaVinci Code, and she walked up and is like "omg! That's not even remotly true, none of it is possible!" Then they are like "stfu god-freak" I loled.
 
Cave Canem said:
There is only 1 religious person in my entire school, every one else is "meh" towards religion..

Someone was talking about the DaVinci Code, and she walked up and is like "omg! That's not even remotly true, none of it is possible!" Then they are like "stfu god-freak" I loled.
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Of course it isn't true because Jesus didn't and doesn't exist (at least not the Messiah version) :smoking:
 
I didn't know what the DaVinci Code is about, I don't know basicly anything about religion, just that they worship God and Jesus (if God is the creator and sends you to heaven/hell, why worship his son?..) I only found it funny because they said stfu god-freak.
 
Angry Lawyer said:
I mean, if a God exists, and he wants us to be happy, there's a reason he made sex so damn good.
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He doesnt want us to be happy. He wants us to obey!

And nobody was like that in my school. In fact I would say nobody I knew in our school believed it.
 
Sweden FTW! Not everyone here is like that... just enough to contaminate some of the political, social, and educational engines. It's definitely regional, too.
 
Ravioli.

It's time to go MechaGodzilla on their asses...
 
Most people in my school are pretty meh, as said before, toward religion. My science teacher was a devout Christian, but she taught evolution without inserting her own beliefs and seemed to believe in it too. Probably guided by God, but she believed in evolution nonetheless. I'm surprised she never wore a cross around her neck. Matter of fact, she was a pretty smart lady...probably one of the few Christians who actually act like Christians.
 
Most of the people seem pretty "down to Earth" in my school, but I live in North, not the South, and that makes a huge difference.
 
Beerdude26 said:
Do you just prowl the internet for images, classify them in one utterly gigantic database and wait for exactly the correct time to use them?
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Perhaps..... he's the Internet itself.....
 
from memory mostly


that mecha quote was from superintendent Chalmers from the simpsons and his other paragraph brought to mind ned flanders saying "that's a dilly of a pickle" in response to mecha's damning question
 
Captain M4d said:
Most of the people seem pretty "down to Earth" in my school, but I live in North, not the South, and that makes a huge difference.
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Yeah, the Bible Belt is horrible. We non-believers have a hard time.
 
I wish I lived in sweden.

Here, the biology teachers voluntarily tell us that evolution does not include "man from monkies" and that macroevolution is false.

of course, I argue this constantly, and I am often belittled by my peers for "beleiving in that shit"' At times I think I am the only sane person in my school, an island of reason in a sea of ignorance.

Even in english class, I was ridiculed out of the classroom for talking about the "controversy of evolution" in our discussion of "dissident philosophies" (it was what I had been randomly assigned)
 
here the religious belief is not like that

people believe in god and all that stuff but if you told them about the evolution they will not go "omfg paganic!"
 
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