Sentences with phrase «earth creationism religious»
The Earth being younger than the radiometric age of 4.5 billion years old is based on the Young Earth Creationism religious belief.
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Creationism is the religious belief [1] that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being, most often referring to the Abrahamic God.
Bill Nye is talking about Young Earth Creationism, or Biblical Literalism, not all religious belief.
E.g., in regards to scientific support for evolution and rejection of creationism and the young earth dogma, in 1986, 72 US Nobel Prize winners, 17 state academies of science and 7 other scientific societies, signed an amicus curiae brief asking the US Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard to reject a Louisiana state law requiring the teaching of creationism, which the brief described as embodying religious dogma.
They had already determined that evolution could not be true based on their religious convictions, and so any logical or scientific inconsistencies within the young earth creationism model were dismissed with a shrug of the shoulders and a pithy statement about the mysteries of God.
Of course there are many Religious Right advocates that do not accept historic or scientific facts and believe in Creationism over proven Evolution, believe the earth is 5000 years old instead of Billions reguardless of the fossil and rock record.
«The secretary of state acknowledges that clauses 2.43 and 2.44 of the Funding Agreement, and clauses 23E and 23G above do not prevent discussion of beliefs about the origins of the Earth and living things, such as creationism, in Religious Education, as long as it is not presented as a valid alternative to established scientific theory.»
A recent Politico story found that taxpayers in 14 states are spending almost a billion dollars this year in tuition at private academies and religious schools, many of which teach fundamentalist religious doctrines like creationism in place of science, telling students that the earth is less than 10,000 years old and that humans co-existed with dinosaurs.
In addition to the lawsuits, the program was criticized for letting students attend religious schools that teach Young Earth Creationism — the belief that the universe is no older than 10,000 years.