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Creationism. Why? and thoughts..

Increasingly we have evidence to favor evolution over creationism, which tells us the world is around 4.5 Billion years old.

In certain education systems in the UK and America they are teaching that the earth is around 10'000 years old. Typically this is because of religious funding in these schools.Surely this is a dangerous thing to teach in a Science class without any evidence?

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    Yehia Kh.

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    Jun 20 2011: Whilst government control is almost always frowned upon, i think in this situation, even in private schools curriculums should be monitored...Just because its private doesn't entitle the school to install dogmatic illogical beliefs that would ultimately be the lens on how those kids see this world..

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