If we allow faith schools to solely show students what they believe to be important students could find that they are not open to new concepts, it also isolates them from the rest of society because even those who disagree with some scientific ideas, such as the creation of man or the creation of the world, still understand and know of such theories and can therefore understand why other people have these beliefs. Children who aren't taught this at all will never be able to decide for themselves what they believe in because they have never had the option to choose and learning from a young age not to question decisions made for you or learning to never understand alternatives could lead to children never questioning controversial laws being passed through, never using their own judgment and therefore leaves them at another disadvantage. Also by limiting the curriculum taught by a school also limits a student's job prospects and degree choice as all of the topics in the exam board's course are likely to crop up when a student does a science at A-level or university.

The curriculum of all (science)subjects, in all schools imports selective information. Whether these selective syllabi are designed by a school board, a national/international examination board, a church or a mosque is irrelevant as the information relayed to students will always be incomplete, having blanks to fill in; missing mammoth chunks of what the subject as a whole represents.

While ruling out the existence of God on the sole basis that the proof for his existence is not solid; is just as unscientific as saying there is definitely a God without definitive proof.

Agnosticism becomes the only logical/objective/scientific answer when there is no proof supporting the argument and its negation; as is the case with the God-argument.

(The) point is (that), while religious institutions may/do present a biased twist on science; the far left is no less biased on the subject. Pretending accepted theories (such as that of evolution; that of relativity, that of everything(T.O.E)) are hard fact is just as unscientific as treating them as pure fluff.

Denying pupils the right to learn about certain subjects, especially when they are backed by empirical research, is wrong and detrimental to the moral, mental, and ethical development of children in schools. In the past, countries used education against indigenous peoples as a weapon to assist on colonization. Education was a priviledge then, not a right. First, indiginous peoples like the Polynesian and aboriginal people had to learn the ways of their colonizers in order to be considered equal or even human. Then, when native people decided to stick to their cultures and and perpetuate them, they were punished for not following a way that made them inferior because of their ignorance. This can be seen as a form of terrorism. I mean this in the respect that if you teach someone what you think thaey should know and not what they need to know, they become more suceptable to failure as there are students that are at a higher level then they are.

If we allow schools to keep away important concepts like science and other concepts that are backed by empirical research, we help in making them prey for countries that are producing well rounded students. This is a violation of the rights of the children of the world to be the successful people that they dream of being.

Schools with religious inclination that alter, selectively teach, or generally obliterate scientific concepts are exercising a form of religious tyranny. People that had their own ideas and challenged the church hundreds of years ago, such as Galileo Galilee, were tried as heretics. Many of the ideas that were used to challenge the church were scientific and many of the people who had these ideas were often killed! It is justifiable for people to pursue what they think is right, but only to an extent. When one's pursuit of happiness or satisfaction in turn endangers the well being of another or violates their natural rights, (assuming all are created equal) it is wrong. People have the right to teach and or learn whatever they want, but they do not have the right to take away someone's right to learn. I speak in this instance of children. Children think that what they are taught in school is right, especially at a very young age. At young ages, we are self aware, but now quite enough to the point where we will question what is told to us. To clarify, when a child is told that one plus one is two, they usually don't ask why, but when told to eat their vegetables.....Well you get the point. If children are unaware of the fact that by educators altering, selectively teaching, or generally obliterating scientific concepts, that they are being robbed, they don't know. They do not yet know the value of education and therefore need to be informed before they are subjected to this form of religious tyranny. By keeping children ignorant, we are just as tyrannical as the religous biggots of old that punished those who chose to educate the world with death.

Protestants came to America to escape religious tyranny. America was founded on may principles and ideas, one of which was freedom. We have the freedom to beleive in whatever diety(ies) we choose and learn what we want, and do what we want as long as we dont violate the rights of others. The teaching of science should be protected in all curriculums except when reigion is involved. When we tell schools with religious inclinations that they must teach things that there faith doesnt accept, we violate their religious freedom. By doing this we make a very unamerican gesture. Why not teach people science because everyone should beleive in it? Because when we violate religious freedoms in order to bring people out of the religion induced darkness, we violate their freedom to worship how they choose. this is unamerican because we founded this country partly so we could escape that kind of predicament.