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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
They are both non-testable and both solely faith based. Why should one be taught but not the other?
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You mean "taught in a science class", right?
On the surface my answer is, because while I know there is no way to prove god's existence, I do not know there is no way to test theories about the jump from single-cell to multicell.
But at a deeper level, I don't think the God-stuff should be taught in a classroom because it just isn't scientifically useful. The "God just makes it happen" theory is intellectually lazy and is no use to the scientist at the lab bench.
Setting aside (here comes a theory) for a second the endosymbiotic hypothesis, and the fact that single-celled organisms do bind each other, and that such binding could result in division of labor, resulting specialization, and so on until multi-cellular organisms form and that perhaps analysis (here comes the test) of DNA sequences from well-preserved ancient eukaryotic organisms compared to DNA sequences from cells of specific tissues could yield information to help solve your problem...setting that aside...I don't think you can assume based on the discussions of this board whether your question is testable or not. It's a lawyer board.
