A few years ago in Freshman year, we have a test about how everything came into existence (and it was on the mid-term,) but I was often confused at how they drilled the idea of how the Universe was made as facts, not interpretation.
If I would have declined to answer those questions because of religious reasons, what could they do?
Hence part of the reason I was home schooled. 
I am assuming that you are saying that you don’t believe the world is billions of years old and that it didn’t just “evolve,” that a higher power made it, etc. I applaud you for considering such a stand. If it had blown up, you could have been labeled as a religious nut or anti-education or intolerant. Or your school could not have even considered your beliefs and simply graded the test like normal, in which case you’d have gotten a low grade. It’s hard to say what could have happened.
Because FACTUALLY that is correct. You are allowed to retain whatever beliefs you want but you should be responding to question with the answers that were taught to you in class. Whether or not you believe in them is not a problem but for example if you believe the Earth was spontaneously created thousands of years ago that is fine but if you get a question on this you must answer with what was taught to you in class. If you were my student and you declined I would give a 0 because it is part of the curriculum and you are required to learn it.
Depending on your state and school district, you might have been able to make a case for being excused from the entire unit, perhaps with alternate content being required as a substitute. My local school districts provide that option for the sexuality unit of health class, for example.
But if you participated in the instructional part without complaint, you almost certainly would have been held accountable for the assessment part as well.
So if I were to believe in a religion that was strictly against any form of mathematics and believed that written language would upset the flying sun god, then I could be exempt from all of school!!???!
thanks based sun god
What created the universe:
My answer god.
I pretty much agree with thatasiankid here. The big bang theory is backed with a ton of evidence and is basically considered fact. Schools can explain it and you just have to be able to answer the questions based on the science behind it, but ultimately your not forced to believe it or anything, just consider the other side for one test. You can choose what to take away and what to believe
Eyeroll… they would have failed you.
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I agree with what 17angel says about not having to believe what you’re being tested on. Just learn what the teacher tells you and take the test. I had similar concerns in one class, and that’s what I did.
You can always preface you answer with, “I have been taught in class that…”
That’s what my D did when she had to affirm on a test that James Watson won the Nobel Peace Prize.
That example had nothing to do with religious beliefs, of course, but it was a way for her to “correctly” answer a question that was in fact wrong. It’s what teacher wanted her to say.
What was the context for this? Was it a typo?
If I had to guess, the teacher misattributed Watson’s Nobel Prize to Peace rather than correctly to Medicine. You’d be surprised about how many think the only Nobel Prize is the Peace Prize.
If I were taught something uncontroversially incorrect, I would point it out and expect it to be corrected. Teachers know they make random mistakes, and I’ve never met one who minded relevant student corrections (e.g., don’t complain about spelling mistakes in a math class). I wouldn’t sit there and say, “I have been taught in class that 2 + 2 = 5.”
I’m not sure. Shyness, maybe? Maybe it’s the kind of teacher that you can’t correct without having to deal with a firestorm of rudeness. This is all just guesswork.
I once wrote several paragraphs of explanation next to a multiple choice response in a geography class at Michigan (not machine graded). The prof in the geography class took a decidedly liberal and scientifically unsupported position on the earliest known presence of humans in North America. I happened to be taking another class at the university that semester where we spent a considerable amount of time learning about the specific archaeology sites and scientific dating methods that had been used to date, and the geography prof had no choices there were even close. I explained that I knew which one he WANTED me to pick because he had given the number in class, but then proceeded to cite the actual oldest scientifically validated site and type of dating used. He gave me an A+ on the test (and eventually in the class, the only one I earned at Michigan)… but note that we were talking carbon dating and actual artifacts, not a religious belief on my part.
