Scientific literacy in the religion classroom

[LukeMC]

Was the teacher that was handing it out "unofficially of course", doing this during school hours?? If so, did you talk with her or do you know someone else that gave their opinion about the leaflet?? Just curious..

She handed them out during a lesson in the run-up to the exams. Nobody in my class said anything about the leaflets, mostly because nobody cared enough to read them. At this point (1 year ago) I hadn't fallen in love with science yet and had only just subscribed to RabidApe on youtube, so my exposure to atheism, science, religion and the debates that they encompass was very limited. However, I did attempt to debate the content going on the little knowledge I had. The teacher used arguments from design to prove that her God was real and that him creating the universe is more likely than random chance from an explosion of gases. All I could really say at this point was "that's not what big bang theory states. If you look at the science and analyse the red shift, would you disagree that the universe is expanding? Scientists don't make things up".

Her response? "You should philosophy next year".

I asked to take the course this year but we didn't have the staff. Shame really, I'd have been having a field day in there nowadays.