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What do faith schools do about teaching for gcse science exams when issues such as evolution and the creation of the universe are on the curricullum?
Do they not do it, but isn't it compulsory? Or do they have a different option, to teach it to the way of their faith? But what about the exams, wouldn't it go agaisnt their gods to answer a question about evolution or the big bang in a way that is saying that it happened. (I don't know if that last sentence made sense but hopefully you'll get what I mean, you normally do.)
Do they not do it, but isn't it compulsory? Or do they have a different option, to teach it to the way of their faith? But what about the exams, wouldn't it go agaisnt their gods to answer a question about evolution or the big bang in a way that is saying that it happened. (I don't know if that last sentence made sense but hopefully you'll get what I mean, you normally do.)
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actually Molly has a point. If there are set papers e.g. for GCSE, how would faith schools handle questions which might want answers which contravene their beliefs? The examiners might set a scenario and say Discuss, but allowance would have to be made, surely, for an extreme bias from some groups. I don't know what exam papers look like these days, I heard they were all multiple choice, we had to write screeds when I was at school.
I remember a biology question from my year ten exams and it was something like, explain a reason for the differences in the finches Darwin studied in the Galapagos. The right answer was something like; different families of the same bird species inhabited different islands which have different climates and ecosystems, to which the birds had to adapt, and thus change slightly form one another. However, this is evolution and wouldn't most faiths say 'god made the birds different so they could survive easier on each island.' Which would be wrong to the examiner but right by their faith.
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