Is creationism being forgotten?

[BrainBlow]

Despite all the campaigns, super churches, gospel channels, etc etc, there still seems to be something happening to creationism.
I live in Norway, a country with state church, Christmas plays and religious songs in school, etc.
However, right now I go to a Christian school. A fundamentalist private school(I live in a dormitory). And it is a bore, but I need to do this for my future.
I'm greatly looking forward to when I start on the school in my home town.
Anyways, we get shoveled the regular Creationist babble and "Christianity" is a subject(which is more about trying to change the student's world view rather than actually teach them about Christianity properly).

I was talking to a bunch of friends I have at the school. I don't remember what the context of the discussion was, but I mentioned how almost all the teachers believe in the six day creation.
One of my friends(a Christian) turned around and said "They can't be that stupid?"
I've noticed this several times.
I didn't know about fundamentalist Christianity before somewhere in 6th-7th grade in SCHOOL where there was one page in "religion" dedicated to them.

It seems that some places, Fundamentalists are being literally forgotten.
Say "fundamentalist Christian" and most (younger) people will probably picture someone who likes Jesus really, really much.

What do you guys think?

 

[Cephei]

I don't know anyone who doesn't accept evolution. I live in Norway too, by the way. But creationism certainly isn't being forgotten in the most religious parts of the US.

 

[SpaceCDT]

I had no idea we even had them here in Australia until I met my partner's parents!

 

[lrkun]

Despite all the campaigns, super churches, gospel channels, etc etc, there still seems to be something happening to creationism.
I live in Norway, a country with state church, Christmas plays and religious songs in school, etc.
However, right now I go to a Christian school. A fundamentalist private school(I live in a dormitory). And it is a bore, but I need to do this for my future.
I'm greatly looking forward to when I start on the school in my home town.
Anyways, we get shoveled the regular Creationist babble and "Christianity" is a subject(which is more about trying to change the student's world view rather than actually teach them about Christianity properly).

I was talking to a bunch of friends I have at the school. I don't remember what the context of the discussion was, but I mentioned how almost all the teachers believe in the six day creation.
One of my friends(a Christian) turned around and said "They can't be that stupid?"
I've noticed this several times.
I didn't know about fundamentalist Christianity before somewhere in 6th-7th grade in SCHOOL where there was one page in "religion" dedicated to them.

It seems that some places, Fundamentalists are being literally forgotten.
Say "fundamentalist Christian" and most (younger) people will probably picture someone who likes Jesus really, really much.

What do you guys think?

No. As long as there is suffering in this world, there will be people who'll believe in god or his quick fix or his prophets. Therefore creationism will not be forgotten for now.

But, I'm glad that your friends are questioning these things.

I had no idea we even had them here in Australia until I met my partner's parents!

Are most australians atheists?

 

[Aught3]

Creationism is a little bit of a problem in Australia.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...sland-classrooms/story-e6frf7l6-1225873019548
http://www.news.com.au/national/cre...-walked-together/story-e6frfkvr-1225899497234

 

[lrkun]

Creationism is a little bit of a problem in Australia.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/na...sland-classrooms/story-e6frf7l6-1225873019548
http://www.news.com.au/national/cre...-walked-together/story-e6frfkvr-1225899497234

@.@ DNA wasn't invented then?(second article) That's like saying the sun didn't exist in the past because then it wasn't called a sun.

I fear for this children. Don't you?

 

[Inferno]

I would be glad if it were forgotten, but the sad reality is that it isn't. I'm actually watching (with fear in my heart) the rise of creationism in almost all of Europe. This isn't to say that we'll all be creationists tomorrow, of course not. But there is a real threat to the mental sanity of our children. Yeah, that's the teacher in me shining through.

 

[BrainBlow]

Despite all the campaigns, super churches, gospel channels, etc etc, there still seems to be something happening to creationism.
I live in Norway, a country with state church, Christmas plays and religious songs in school, etc.
However, right now I go to a Christian school. A fundamentalist private school(I live in a dormitory). And it is a bore, but I need to do this for my future.
I'm greatly looking forward to when I start on the school in my home town.
Anyways, we get shoveled the regular Creationist babble and "Christianity" is a subject(which is more about trying to change the student's world view rather than actually teach them about Christianity properly).

I was talking to a bunch of friends I have at the school. I don't remember what the context of the discussion was, but I mentioned how almost all the teachers believe in the six day creation.
One of my friends(a Christian) turned around and said "They can't be that stupid?"
I've noticed this several times.
I didn't know about fundamentalist Christianity before somewhere in 6th-7th grade in SCHOOL where there was one page in "religion" dedicated to them.

It seems that some places, Fundamentalists are being literally forgotten.
Say "fundamentalist Christian" and most (younger) people will probably picture someone who likes Jesus really, really much.

What do you guys think?

No. As long as there is suffering in this world, there will be people who'll believe in god or his quick fix or his prophets. Therefore creationism will not be forgotten for now.

But, I'm glad that your friends are questioning these things.
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I think you have misunderstood me. I mean "forgotten" as in, "not dominant at all". People who aren't fundamentalists go about not even knowing about the fundies.
Basically, they are being forgotten outside of their own circles.
(and most of my friends are non-believers anyways)

 

[AdmiralPeacock]

I had no idea we even had them here in Australia until I met my partner's parents!

I was raised as a Creationist and took it for granted until I hit highschool.

The Creationist crowd in Australia is pretty small, but internationally potent - example, Answers in Genesis was founded in Australia.

 

[televator]

Still a doozey in the US too... What with tax payer backed creationist parks and what not...

 

[SpaceCDT]

The Creationist crowd in Australia is pretty small, but internationally potent - example, Answers in Genesis was founded in Australia.

Wow, that's shameful. I thought Ken Ham was our only major creotard export!

 

[AdmiralPeacock]

The Creationist crowd in Australia is pretty small, but internationally potent - example, Answers in Genesis was founded in Australia.

Wow, that's shameful. I thought Ken Ham was our only major creotard export!

Yes and no - like many ummm fields, Australia is not particularly fertile ground (figuratively and literally); what is truly shameful isn't that we export our creotards, but a lot of our scientific talent. For example, our government missed out on a change to dominate the Solar Power industry by affectively blowing off Shi Zhengrong (A Chinese born Australian Citizen) - consequently he went to China to found Suntech Power, the world's third largest solar company.

I'd rather the creotards stay here, and the fate of wheat in the Red Center, they would have welted and died.

 

[DTBeast]

I'm glad to hear that creationism is on the decline in other parts of the world, unfortunately here in the Southern Region of the USA it is way alive and well.

Thankfully the school board in Louisiana stopped the stupid from infiltrating their textbooks, but Texas still hasn't given up making sure that we continue to fail at science.

 

[lrkun]

I think you have misunderstood me. I mean "forgotten" as in, "not dominant at all". People who aren't fundamentalists go about not even knowing about the fundies.

Basically, they are being forgotten outside of their own circles.
(and most of my friends are non-believers anyways)

You meant non dominant. >.< I thought you meant that it's being forgotten in a literal sense. Maybe it depends on the area. Here, most people still believe in God and believe in the Bible. It's still dominant.

 

[BrainBlow]

You meant non dominant. >.<

me sowwy. me no gud engrish.

Note that I also apply "forgotten" to Creationists. Not religion in of itself.
Even the theists seem to forget about the fundamentalists.

 

[lrkun]

me sowwy. me no gud engrish.

Note that I also apply "forgotten" to Creationists. Not religion in of itself.
Even the theists seem to forget about the fundamentalists.

Or maybe they just don't take their religion as seriously as the creationists.

 

[Squawk]

I didn't know such idiocy existed until I was in my early 20's (possibly 19). Blew my mind when I found out.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

I didn't know such idiocy existed until I was in my early 20's (possibly 19). Blew my mind when I found out.

me neither, I saw a couple of articles on the issue at my high school and always thought creationists as a tiny minority.

 

[wolfrayet]

I think it's time for statistics like the following are in desperate need to be readdressed:

Map of Atheist Population

World Religions
Four largest religions Adherents % of World Population Wikipage
World Population 6.8 billion [3][4] Figure used by individual articles
Christianity 1.9 billion - 2.1 billion [5] 29% - 32% Christianity by country
Islam 1.3 billion - 1.57 billion [6] 19% - 23% Islam by country
Hinduism 800 million - 900 million [7] 14% - 20% Hinduism by country
Buddhism 500 million - 1 billion [8][9][10][11] 7% - 19% Buddhism by country
Total 4.65 billion - 6.17 billion 68.38% - 90.73%

I find this very hard to believe today, but how would such an accurate calculation be carried out?

 

[Squawk]

Are the Chinese "natural" atheists, or would it still be considered somewhat forced over there?