How do Creationists teach geography?

While reading an interesting piece on Darwinism recently, I began wondering how Creationists teach geography.

The Independent today reports that Creationism has spread to British schools.

How do Creationists explain the presence of mountains, glacial valleys and the other geological features of our landscape, which are scientifically proven to be thousands or millions of years old?

The problem with Creationism is that it implicitly paves the way for the capitalist approach to exploiting our natural environment.

Darwinism sees nature as the supreme creator, whereas Creationism sees nature as a creation of God, in whose image we are also supposedly made.

Conveniently, in this context, there can be no cause for concern that man should exploit his own world and its natural resources, rather than live within its ecological limits which are defined by the higher force of nature.

Darwinist theory, meanwhile, teaches that we evolved from nature, and from that implication, many might conclude that we should respect nature and live within ecological limits, rather than infinitely exploit the land and its resources.

As one of the unfortunate pupils at a Christian Brothers' school in Ireland, I am only too familiar with the dogmatic nonsense Creationists attempt to ram down pupils' throats.

Surely, kids should be presented with both theories and left to make up their own minds.

Then, their minds would at least have the opportunity to stretch to imagining that a higher force of nature might ultimately be responsible for their existence, rather than the easy, apathetic acceptance of believing in God.



'It's all about bucks kid, and the rest is just conversation.' - Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's film, Wall Street.