When taking my son to the zoo should I tell him God made the animals or they are a product of evolution.?
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Tell him the truth, he can handle it and doesnt need fables to cope like religious wackos do. Also, talk to him normal, kids love that and respond well to it. But, Im preaching to the choir, I know.\n\nHave fun...dont forget the cotton candy and to enjoy every minute with your son.
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And babies prove evolution is a fact since they evolve out of plants, water, animals and rocks.\n\nGiven all the evidence proving God does not exist (and if he does, he's useless), it's a wonder any intelligent person makes the claim that he does exist.\n\nThe opium of the masses, Marx said, and is apparently true.
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Creation THROUGH Evolution.  Both are correct in their own ways.  Believing in one does not exclude the other.
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I read your answer on paul meeting christ.\nyou seem open minded and level headed, you will do your childs education the most good.\n\nBut to answer your question.\n\nWhen a baby is born, despite popular belief, their eyes work just fine. It's just that each eye is independant. If you believe in evolution, we all came from prey animals with side facing eyes that move independently. If you don't believe in evolution, we're all born blank dumb boxes.\n\nBaby's first learning task (apart from food) is triangulation of the eyes. Move one eye to the edge of an object, then move other eye to same edge. Then try to move both eyes in unison to follow that edge.\n\nTo help your child develop this skill, draw black and white pictures (swirls, smiley face, waves, basic geometry, pythagorases 3,4,5 triangle with squares drawn in) with a thick texta and put them around the cot. I know she is 4 months old, and she can see just fine now, but in our plasterboard homes, that contrast could be exactly what she need to cement in a few extra neural pathways. This most basic thing improves spacial awareness and i.q. a lot more than most things.\n\nAt six months go to colour pictures.\n\nNext, take her camping. The best way to learn physics is experience. You can't get that in a house. Feel the force of wind on your body. See the delay in the branches moving and you hearing the noise. Bend sticks until they break to learn about bending forces.\n\nShow her reality. The most fundamental knowledge. Pour water from cup to cup, play in sand pits and make bridges out of sand. You don't need to spend money.
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:}\nEact is always acceptable\nremember evolution is a theory\nyou Ara in school to learn  learn the theory. but remember your beliefs. If you have questions ask them out of class to Christians who are well informed. go slowly at first until you find out how much you can say or challenge.
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My dads a christian minister, and he believes in evolution - he says that the creation story in the bible is like a parable, but in acutal fact it took much much longer than 7 days to create everything, and evolution is part of god's plan - it's how he created everything.  He says that evolution cannot be agrued with, as there are no holes in the 'theory' - it is a fact, not a theory,  so the only sensible way to look at the creation story is as a parable.
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To clarify...he's not believing "what he wants", as if he's a spoiled child.  He's believing what he believes.  \n\nIf he has explored various options (I must applaud you for encouraging this, btw), and says that the thing that makes the most sense to him is evolution, then you won't be able to change his mind. \n\nHowever, if he's not done exploring, most certainly you should remind him of the belief system that has been important to you.  I'm sure he shares much of your moral & ethical values, which often ties right in to one's faith.  When looking at all of the options out there, the one that connects back to you will have extra weight.
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Chicken. God spoke forth and created the animals for Adam's Dominon
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These are quotes from the book, Do Fish Drink Water?\n\n"If you are a creationist, you believe God created man and all of the animals on the earth.  It wouldn't make a lot of sense for God to create an egg, so the chicken must have come first.  After all, if God created the egg first, there would be no hen to hatch it or to care for the chick once it was hatched"\n\n"If you are an evolutionist, you believe that animals evolve into different species over time.  Therefore the chicken must have evolved from a former chicken-like creature ((actually it evolved from reptiles like the T-rex))  At some point in time this creature laid an egg that hatched into a modern chicken.  It couldn't have been a chicken egg, because there was no such thing as a chicken yet.  The first chicken egg could only have been laid by the first chicken."\n\nBoth answers are the same depending if you're an evolutionist or a creationist.  The chicken came first!!!  =)
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The theory of evolution is backed by a lot of scientific proof, while religion isn't. Science is what we teach in schools. If you or your child think that intelligent design is what is correct, you can think of it as being informed as to what the theory of evolution is, not being told what actually happened.
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It's an urban myth, like most Creationist stories about evolution. In fact, from the biographies I've read, Darwin lent more and more towards agnosticism or atheism as he got older, starting out as a very strong believer in the Genesis story when he set sail on the Beagle, and disbelieving Christianity but still believing in God when he wrote the Origin of Species.
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For this answer I will assume he or she is in the 9th grade.\nAs a teacher you have to respect the views of the students while upholding the curiculum. I would eplain to the student that althougth evolution is a theory so is the religious views of creation. If you do not wish to go into the religous aspect of evolution, I would suggest that you show proof of concept, so to speak. Break out the psters and videos of how we all a common ancestor. Show comparisons between mamals. For instance compare the bones of mamals like horses, monkeys, and human, and show them how we all have the same bones just different arrangements.\n\nGood Luck, but remember to be very respectful when discussing such a touchy topic.
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You have an oxymoron here. If you believe in evolution then nothing was created. If you believe in creation, then nothing evolved.\n    Monkeys evolved just like all other living things here on earth.If you believe that God created monkeys, but wonder why, ask about bed-bugs, the aids virus, mosquitoes, why created envy, greed, lust.  Whoever created the good, also created the bad.
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I am a Christian, and I believe the world was created by God. Every finest detail was His idea.\n\nLet me staff my point. Scientist of today believe in evolution. This theory states that everything you see today was created by chance. It states that right in the beginning, a little one-cell'ed animal fell into the ocean by accident. This animal started to grow and learned to swim and to have kids. Later on, it found out that it could live on land, and (over millions of years) grew feet to walk on. The evolution process went through all the different stages of animal life, and at last humans came into existence.\n\nMy first objection towards this is that, if humans were evolved, two humans had to be "evolved" or "born" at the very same time for humans to continue to exist. It is insane to think that mankind came from only the evolution of one man. There had to be a number of men which "evolved" at the very same time. Now that is a lot asked.\n\nI want to tell you a story which Sir Isaac Newton used to prove that evolution is false. One day, one of his friends (a devout evolutionist) was sitting at Sir Isaac's desk. Sir Isaac was busy doing some work. The friend was busy admiring a very beautiful model of the universe which stood on Sir Isaac's table. \nThe friend then asked, "Who made this thing?"\n"No one," replied Sir Isaac bluntly.\n"No, really, tell me who made this thing. It is very beautiful." said the friend.\nTo which Sir Isaac replied, "All the pieces of that model were just lying around here, and they all just started to drift toward each other, and one day when I came here, this beautiful thing was standing on my desk!"\n\nI think Sir Isaac really answered the question.\n\nHope I helped you out on that one...
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The real question for your teachers is, "If we evolved from monkeys and apes, how come we still have monkeys and apes?" \n\nThe beauty of evolutionists is that they only claim it as a THEORY, therefore, if they are wrong, they can just say, "hey, it's only a theory." It is just as much faith-based as any religion out there. \n\nThe best book I ever read on creation didn't come from the Bible, it came from one called "Scientific Creationism." See link.
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The chicken. The Bible tells God created all living animals and then provided for them to reproduce. So the egg was how they reproduced.
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God wasn't created.  He evolved from Apes.