As a student, it is inconceivable to me to think that any law would prohibit teaching. What's even stranger to me is that anyone would want to deny the existence of science and how it affects every single aspect of our physical world. This is why I'm entirely opposed to the law that forbids the teaching of the evolution and sending a man to jail for doing so.
Science is one of the things I am completely certain of. Everything in our lives can be somehow related to science: astronomy, anatomy, chemistry, genetics, evolution, physics, etc. Every single aspect of our universe can be explained by science, and they are all somehow connected.
Religion is one part of life that is a little vaguer. It is all based on faith, and believing in a superior force we are not capable of fully understanding, and have never even seen before. I don't disagree with the moral teachings the Bible gives us because they are very valuable ones. I believe everyone needs some type of moral guidance in order to live peacefully in a community, and it’s not wrong to believe there is someone out there which could possibly be keeping on eye on us.
Many things in the Bible have miracles and occurrences that wouldn't be possible in the physical world. For example, during that time, people lived about 900 years, with each generation dying younger. Like it is mentioned during the first part of Genesis, “And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.” (Genesis 5:8). This is entirely impossible. Humans could never live that long: a regular human lifespan is about 70 years, depending on which country you live in. Even today with technology and medicine no one can live more than 120 years.
Another “fact” the Bible claims is every single person in the world comes from the blood of Adam and Eve. As far as I know, God only created Adam and Eve as the first humans. However, it is blatantly contradicted in Cain’s situation:
“And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.” (Genesis 4:17-18) Where did Cain’s wife come from? How did his children have more children? Did their wives suddenly pop out from the same place Cain’s wife came from? The same happens with Seth. How did he begat so many children? I seem to remember breeding from the same line of DNA can give offspring with damaged DNA, and many times these offspring have strange diseases that kill them young. How then, could generations and generations of humans come from only one couple (Seth and his unmentioned wife)?
In my personal opinion, the Bible shouldn’t be treated as fact or ancient history, as they want to treat it in the Scopes Trial. It’s absurd that people claim that the beginning of our human race is just as the Bible claims it to be, and refuse to accept other theories that have actually been physically proven and are based on real life that is happening right now (or certainly happened millions of years ago). We cannot deny that the universe and everything around us can be explained by terms other than a book.
It is great to follow the Ten Commandments and follow Jesus’ example of a good human. What I really wish people don’t do is limit the levels of our understanding to a book full of impossibilities that couldn’t possibly apply to the material reality we live in.
It's foolish to prohibit the learning and enrichment of our own knowledge, because for one thing, God gave us good brains to think, (if you want to believe it that way) and achieve great things. As great human thinkers, we should concentrate on moving forward in our path of wisdom and discovery, always open to new possibilities.
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