I attended a Jewish preschool and elementary school and obviously was taught religion in addition to normal school subjects.
I never even heard about a creationism vs evolution debate until I was in high school. We were taught the creation story from the Torah in my Judaica class and about dinosaurs/the Big Bang in science class. They never seemed like they contradicted each other.
Maybe my school was just not as shitty(still ton of Israeli propaganda though), but I always got the impression that part of doing Torah study is making interpretations to explain the contradictions and that when you read 7 days and 7 nights that wouldn’t necessarily mean days the way humans experience it. Like it just seemed like it made sense that dinosaurs happened on one of those earlier days and they fucked it up so god started over with Adam and Eve or even “God created man” could mean god created an organism that would eventually evolve into man.
Idk my elementary school brain could make it make sense, I don’t know why it’s so hard for fundamentalists.
Thats how they taught us evolution in Canadian Catholic school too, that the Book of Genesis has to be read allegorically and evolution is entirely compatible with faith. Like its kind of blasphemous to say that the Devil just planted all this evidence for evolution and an ancient Earth because that would mean God really dosen’t give a shit and wants the Devil to fuck with us on a grand scale.
Going to sincere-post for a bit.
I attended a Jewish preschool and elementary school and obviously was taught religion in addition to normal school subjects.
I never even heard about a creationism vs evolution debate until I was in high school. We were taught the creation story from the Torah in my Judaica class and about dinosaurs/the Big Bang in science class. They never seemed like they contradicted each other.
Maybe my school was just not as shitty(still ton of Israeli propaganda though), but I always got the impression that part of doing Torah study is making interpretations to explain the contradictions and that when you read 7 days and 7 nights that wouldn’t necessarily mean days the way humans experience it. Like it just seemed like it made sense that dinosaurs happened on one of those earlier days and they fucked it up so god started over with Adam and Eve or even “God created man” could mean god created an organism that would eventually evolve into man.
Idk my elementary school brain could make it make sense, I don’t know why it’s so hard for fundamentalists.
Thats how they taught us evolution in Canadian Catholic school too, that the Book of Genesis has to be read allegorically and evolution is entirely compatible with faith. Like its kind of blasphemous to say that the Devil just planted all this evidence for evolution and an ancient Earth because that would mean God really dosen’t give a shit and wants the Devil to fuck with us on a grand scale.