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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

My American catholic school taught us that creationism is against catholic doctrine. They also taught the controversy.

My friends who went to public school got less instruction on evolution and their science teachers were obviously creationist while mine barely hid that she thought it was moronic

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JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, catholic school are generally better about teaching science than other denominations; especially the evangelicals.

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TheOakTree@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
All of my friends who went to catholic school had the opposite experience. Evolution was handwaved away as complete nonsense, and God’s benevolence was the answer for why people exist. My public school taught evolution very thoroughly, though none of my science teachers seemed creationist.

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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Strange. We had just enough Jesuit influence to tell us that God was why, but what and how is best understood through science. Non overlapping magesteria and whatnot.
  
  Now thats not to say they didnt spew some shit. Hell we once got pulled out of class to look at magic bones (internet atheist Latin teacher didn’t like that lol), and our Christian lifestyles class was mostly bigotry and marriage advice, but science class was for understanding the world and the scientific method.
  
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