[geocentrism] Fw: Bulletin on Russian Orthodox Patriarch and Evolution from Hugh
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Russian Orthodox patriarch blasts teaching Darwin in schools
MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti) - Imposing on schoolchildren the theory
that humans descended from apes is unacceptable, the head of the Russian
Orthodox Church said Monday.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the church has campaigned for the
right to teach the basics of the Orthodox faith in public schools as a
challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution, which was official dogma in Soviet
times.
The issue has had particular resonance after schoolgirl Mariya Shraiber
and her father filed a lawsuit demanding that Darwinism be stripped of its
dominant position in the Russian school curriculum, calling its teaching to the
exclusion of other theories a gross violation of the freedom of choice.
"Teaching the biblical theory of the world's creation will not harm
students. If people choose to believe that they descended from apes, let them,
but without imposing their opinions on others," Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
and All Russia told an educational conference in the Kremlin, which was
attended by government and military officials, public and cultural figures and
spiritual leaders from Russia and former Soviet republics.
Alexy II said it was important not only to respect the rights of
minorities, but those of the Orthodox majority as well, whose share the Church
put at 90% of the total population throughout Russia, and whose children
"should know the basics of their religion."
"If introduced, the subject will not be in breach of the principle of
secularism fixed in the Constitution," he said, adding that teaching the basics
of Orthodoxy would prevent the ideas of nationalism and extremism from taking
root at school.
The calls by Orthodox leaders for a course on the history of
Christianity, whether optional or mandatory, to be included in school
curriculums has met with opposition from leaders of other faiths practiced in
Russia, who say a course on the history of all religions should be introduced.
Advocates of a secular society have protested the introduction of such a
course in schools at all, saying that even if students were interested and it
was introduced, it would have to be taught by secular professors and be
optional rather than mandatory.
► Darwinism’s strict settlement imposed on school must give way to
the student’s right to choose a scientific worldview, a representative of the
Russian Orthodox Church say
Moscow, January 30, Interfax - The vice-chairman of the Department for
External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Vsevolod
Chaplin supported children’s and their parents’ right to choose what
interpretation of the origin of man and life on Earth to study in school.
‘Until now there has been the monopoly and strict settlement of
Darwinism, which, though but a hypothesis, a theory of the origin of man and
world, is presented today as an indisputable scientific truth,’ Fr. Vsevolod
told the Ekho Moskvy radio broadcasting in his interview.
Many scientists think that in Darwin’s theory ‘there is pretty much
strained argumentation’, and archaeological facts, which had been presented
as ‘something unquestionable’ in Soviet textbooks are in reality ‘very
much fragmentary’ and ‘can never provide a solid basis to prove that a
biological species may evolve into another one.’
‘In any event, this theory has little evidence. So, insisting that it
is a proven scientific truth is at least imprudent,’ the Moscow
Patriarchate’s representative said, having also mentioned that Darwin’s
theory had much ideology in it.
The schoolchildren and their parents should ‘enjoy their right to have
their worldview taught in schools,’ he said.
It was a part of the international law that the school curriculum must be
in keeping with the concrete family’s worldview, Fr. Vsevolod noted.
Russian Orthodox patriarch blasts teaching Darwin in schools
MOSCOW, January 29 (RIA Novosti) - Imposing on schoolchildren the theory
that humans descended from apes is unacceptable, the head of the Russian
Orthodox Church said Monday.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the church has campaigned for the
right to teach the basics of the Orthodox faith in public schools as a
challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution, which was official dogma in Soviet
times.
The issue has had particular resonance after schoolgirl Mariya Shraiber
and her father filed a lawsuit demanding that Darwinism be stripped of its
dominant position in the Russian school curriculum, calling its teaching to the
exclusion of other theories a gross violation of the freedom of choice.
"Teaching the biblical theory of the world's creation will not harm
students. If people choose to believe that they descended from apes, let them,
but without imposing their opinions on others," Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
and All Russia told an educational conference in the Kremlin, which was
attended by government and military officials, public and cultural figures and
spiritual leaders from Russia and former Soviet republics.
Alexy II said it was important not only to respect the rights of
minorities, but those of the Orthodox majority as well, whose share the Church
put at 90% of the total population throughout Russia, and whose children
"should know the basics of their religion."
"If introduced, the subject will not be in breach of the principle of
secularism fixed in the Constitution," he said, adding that teaching the basics
of Orthodoxy would prevent the ideas of nationalism and extremism from taking
root at school.
The calls by Orthodox leaders for a course on the history of
Christianity, whether optional or mandatory, to be included in school
curriculums has met with opposition from leaders of other faiths practiced in
Russia, who say a course on the history of all religions should be introduced.
Advocates of a secular society have protested the introduction of such a
course in schools at all, saying that even if students were interested and it
was introduced, it would have to be taught by secular professors and be
optional rather than mandatory.
► Darwinism’s strict settlement imposed on school must give way to
the student’s right to choose a scientific worldview, a representative of the
Russian Orthodox Church say
Moscow, January 30, Interfax - The vice-chairman of the Department for
External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Vsevolod
Chaplin supported children’s and their parents’ right to choose what
interpretation of the origin of man and life on Earth to study in school.
‘Until now there has been the monopoly and strict settlement of
Darwinism, which, though but a hypothesis, a theory of the origin of man and
world, is presented today as an indisputable scientific truth,’ Fr. Vsevolod
told the Ekho Moskvy radio broadcasting in his interview.
Many scientists think that in Darwin’s theory ‘there is pretty much
strained argumentation’, and archaeological facts, which had been presented
as ‘something unquestionable’ in Soviet textbooks are in reality ‘very
much fragmentary’ and ‘can never provide a solid basis to prove that a
biological species may evolve into another one.’
‘In any event, this theory has little evidence. So, insisting that it
is a proven scientific truth is at least imprudent,’ the Moscow
Patriarchate’s representative said, having also mentioned that Darwin’s
theory had much ideology in it.
The schoolchildren and their parents should ‘enjoy their right to have
their worldview taught in schools,’ he said.
It was a part of the international law that the school curriculum must be
in keeping with the concrete family’s worldview, Fr. Vsevolod noted.
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