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Petition Teach Science, not belief. Move Evolution to R.E.

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Today it is accepted that religious belief should not be taught as science. Science is the analysis of the world around us based on our senses in which we can run quantifyable tests repeatedly and obtain the same outcomes. Religious belief is the application of what a person believes based on faith in things not seen. The Theory of Evolution is a belief held to by its followers with religious ferver, made polular in modern history by Darwin; but believed by many for thousands of years amongst many religions including Ancient Greeks, Hinduism and other athiestic or multi-deity faiths. It is taught in schools based on aspects such as missing links and ape to man skeletal remains found in 1974 to be fraudelent. Teaching also that carbon dating proves rock ages of millions or years despite Carbon 13 only having a half life of 5730 years which mathematically is impossible to obtain such ages. Evolution, like creationism, is religious belief and should be religated to teaching in RE

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