How did/does your high school handle evolution/creationism?

Question

I was just wondering what other people were taught in school. Please include in your answer:

1.) Whether your high scool favored evolution or creationism
2.) Where your high school was located
3.) Whether your high scool was public or private
4.) Whether, if private, your school had any religious affiliation


For me, it was:
1.) evolution
2.) Florida
3.) private
4.) Roman Catholic (Jesuit)

Answer 1

1. Evolution
2. NC
3. public

Answer 2

1.) Evolution - we did a bit in Biology about common ancestors of different organisms, etc. but not specifically human evolution. I don't know, maybe we'll do it next year. We also did a bit on the formation of the earth in Geography.
2.) Ontario, Canada
3.) Public but it's a Catholic school (in Religion class we were taught that the Creation story was a myth but that Bible stories do not have to be literally true for God to be real.)

Answer 3

1) Evolution
2) New Jersey
3) Public
4) no religion

However, when I was in AP biology my senior year I began to seriously doubt evolution was true when the teacher started talking about the leaps from single celled to multi-cellular organisms. It just sounded like there was no proof of it - just a fairy tale about how it "might have" happened. I was not a Christian at the time, it just didn't sound right to me.

If they had taught about how the fossil record doesn't support evolution, and how evolution cannot explain irreducible complexity (such as the human eye) and how the fossil record of the Cambrian period and pre-Cambrian period argues strongly AGAINST evolution, I doubt anyone would have believed it.

Answer 4

The point is now Moot. With Intelligent Design poised to take over schools across America, both Creationism AND Evolution will be taught together in one harmoniously integrated lesson plan.

1.) Both!
2.) all chools across the country
3.) mostly public, some private
4.) It doesn't matter - ID is for everyone!

Intelligent Design - do your part to make your local schools ID-ready (for more info, read the ID FAQ on my Q&A page)

Glory be ID

Answer 5

i dont remeber Red Oak high school teaching creationism or evolution. That was years ago. If they did i dont remeber it. then agian maybe i could ask the super at the time. In college i remeber someone doing a seminar about how Star Wars was evil. I have really bad ADD and thankfully i wasnt paying much attention otherwise i whould have left had i known what they were trying to do (i was a christian at the time and not really aware of anything especially the secrets that the christian churches all of them keep from thier sheep to keep them misinformed and ignorant)

Answer 6

My school favored neither so they just taught it and if anyone had a problem with it their guardians had to write and sign a letter that will excuse them from the unit. It was gonna be in the final anyways so people usually knew that the school wasn't going to try and sabotage the beliefs of its students so many just learned the material and either accepted it and moved on. Except one of my friends was excused from the unit since her family was extremely orthodox, and she just learned as much as she could outside the classroom without actually endelving in Darwins theory itself.

2) Rochester, NY
3)public

Answer 7

1)Evolution: They taught facts in school, not religious ideas.
2)Texas
3)public
4) N/A

Answer 8

1) Evolution - one of the last subjects covered in Biology for the year
2) Midwest
3) Public

Answer 9

my school taught evolution but i don't believe in it. for most people they grew up hearing and learning about evolution, but do they know why they believe int it or are they just used to the fact that they heard all their life.

Answer 10

No problem here. I was homeschooled. This was never a subject until I enter college. And then the instructors didn't care what you believed, they just went over what the textbook had to say and never tested on it.