"Don't know" is good for science because it encourages investigation, but it's not what is taught in our schools, says Mark.

Following a father's landmark case at the High Court over his daughter being placed in school Bible classes without his permission, we're asking for your views on religion being taught in schools. Here's what Mark James had to say.

Make no mistake, religion is already taught in our schools. And it's taught in science classes.

Ask an honest scientist where our universe came from and the answer would be; "Don't know." Ask where the first living organism came from, or how evolution has produced complex life from this first organism and again, the honest answer would be; "Don't know."

I don't have a problem with "don't know". "Don't know" is good for science because it encourages investigation, but it's not what is taught in our schools.

Our young people are taught that a big bang produced everything from nothing, even though this violates the first law of thermodynamics (energy/matter cannot be created, or destroyed).

They are taught that abiogenesis caused the first cell to arise from a mixture of chemicals, even though this violates the law of biogenesis (life comes only from life).

And they are taught that mutations plus natural selection are responsible for the incredible diversity of life on this planet, when everything we know about DNA tells us that mutations destroy, rather than create, complexity.

In most schools these scientific 'facts' are taught uncritically, because to allow criticism would open the door to religious viewpoints and, we are told, religion does not belong in the science class.

But to teach uncritically is to indoctrinate. And when one worldview is taught and all others are excluded, the result is religious indoctrination.

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