I think both Evolution and Creation should be taught in public schools....?

Question

What do you think?

Answer 1

Screw church and state I totally agree with you. In college they teach us about religion and science so why not cover these topics at an early age where kids can form their own opinion not their parent's opinion. Things have changed a lot since I was in school, we had it all then. Now they try to apease so many parents that they don't know what they are teaching.

Answer 2

I think Evolution should be taught in school, as that goes along with other scientific things taught; I think Creationism should be taught as a form of culture and religion, not science. I think that Creationism should actually be taught at the family's church in the proper way it is conceived by that religion, not some blanket Creationism theory which will be watered down and still offend most Christians, as either being too much or too little.
BTW I am a born again Christian....I want religion taught at my home and church, not by someone I do not know or trust in the public school system.

Answer 3

I disagree. Creation should not be taught in public schools. I don't understand why some keep pushing this line. This oversteps the separation between Church and State.

Edit:
Now that I think about it a bit more. It could probably be taught as a study of different belief systems in Social Studies (or whatever that subject is called these days). But, it should not be taught anywhere else.

Answer 4

Yes... that way people could learn about it before they judge it. In Britain, when I moved there briefly for my last years of school, they taught religious education openly, and I learned a lot from it. Now that I've left school and returned to my home in California, I look back on all these American teens at school, and I see they are missing something; the ability to understand religion.

Answer 5

There are so many different Creation Explanations that it would be difficult to hit on them all and to choose only one would defeat the whole purpose of introducing it into school to begin with. Religious / Spiritual Creation Theory is better left with family and personal choice, not in school simply due to the hundreds of different theories established. Learning about the Evolution Thoery doesn't compare to the time it would take to learn about the latter.

Answer 6

yes i do, but it must be taught in exactly the same way as evolution. it must be critically examined and tested. creationism must explain why the sciences of geology, paleontology, cosmology, genetics, physics, chemistry, anthropology, astronomy are wrong. it must explain why such successful scientific theories,( the scientific definition of theory, not the colloquial one), as quantum theory is wrong, in fact why all the basic physical laws of the universe as we know them are wrong. it is better that children learn about creationism from people who are totally objective about it, rather than receiving the lies , falsehoods and distortions of fervent creationists. i believe if it is taught fairly the whole idea of creationism will whither and die. i believe this because i went to a religious school and there is no better antidote to religion than being taught about it. it's like snake bite serum, a little bit of the venom cures the complaint.

Answer 7

Possibly, but not in the same class. (in more ways than one)

Creation myths of all religions could be taught in a comparative religion and philosophy course. At the High School level though...not for younger kids. Children have trouble separating fact and fantasy, and we wouldn't want them to start believing in Wotan, or Mithra or Yahweh or some other mythical supernatural creature now, would we?

Evolution should continue to be taught in science classes, as well as any valid scientific arguments against evolution. (by the way, there really aren't any)

The christian creation myth is already taught in your churches and in the home. Why should it be inflicted on your children more than that, and why should it be inflicted on my children at all?

Answer 8

I think that the teaching of Creation as a theory alongside evolution is a lot like saying,"We have two theories about where babies come from. The first is that a sperm fertilizes an egg. The fertilized egg implants itself in the woman's womb, where over the next nine months it undergoes a series of changes until it develops into a full-grown baby and is delivered. We have conclusive, stage by stage evidence for this theory. The second theory is that babies are delivered via stork... because that's what my mom said happens."

Answer 9

Truth isn't democratic. The trouble is that it's hard to present serious evidence at school level. All the same, the evidence is extremely compelling, so that only really borderline scientists and non-biologists take non-evolutionary based theories seriously.

To start the common sense moving, consider this: we humans successfully select traits in animals and plants; why shouldn't nature? All that has to happen is that some animals or plants reproduce more successfully than others.

Answer 10

If we allow creation to be taught in public schools, then which version of creation should be taught? Christianity, Buddhism, or peter griffin's version of theory of creation when god farted and accidentally created the big bang?

Answer 11

Cosmic Humanism believes that humanity has in truth limitless ability. Evolution is needed to the philosophy. mutually as the thought human beings have been created isn't anathema, Biblical advent is punctiliously incompatible because of the fact it asserts that there are limits to human ability and the cheating and anti-psychological nature of the Creationist stream is opposite to the form of humanity.