I don't understand. How can creationism be taught in public schools?

Question

Creationism only takes a few minutes to explain. With evolution there is so much to know. It really is a massive undertaking. I mean, what can you do with creationism in a classroom setting? Do you just want kids to read Genesis? Do you just want to implement Bible studies into public schools? And if that's your agenda, how are you supposed to keep every other religion out of schools except yours? People won't stand for it.

Answer 1

no, by law creation is not allowed to be taught in any public schools.

Answer 2

Creationism does not take a few minutes to explain, if the kids ask questions. If you're trying to indoctrinate first graders, who believe anything they're told, it might only take a few minutes. But the main point is this. If the christers want their religion taught in school (which is not the place for it - they have Sunday School for that.), then they damn well better allow all religious theory to be taught as well. Muslim, Judaism, Buddhism, all of it. That's what they want, though - only the christian religion. Prayers over the public address system every morning, prayer before lunch, before sports... but only their prayers. No one else's. What they don't get is that the kids can pray all they like - as long as they do it silently. They could pray the livelong day - as long as they keep it quiet. Who says kids can't pray? They just don't start the day with a prayer anymore, the way the pledge is said every morning. They can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that not only christians attend public schools. They wouldn't appreciate having only Muslim prayers allowed 5 times a day, but they want to make everyone suffer through theirs. It's wrong, and it won't happen.

Answer 3

Move to Britain, get into a regular public school, and they'll give you religious education. The education does not make you worship, it teaches you about many religions and what they worship. It shows you the difference between this religion and that religion, and it shows you who worships what. It tells you why these people worship, how they worship, and what kind of God they worship. It tells you the history of religion, and within the study of religious history one can find culture.
And at the end of all that study, you do learn something. By gaining knowledge of this type, you can now think deeply into a certain religion before you decide to judge it. You can now know the facts, and understand why people have religion. You can discover new cultures through this type of education. Or maybe you don't like culture... maybe, because you deny this education, you have ill tolerance for different people and different ideas.

Answer 4

Paradoxically encouraging the teaching of creationism only helps to undermine Christianity's credibility. By all means let them try and force their beliefs on others, let people see how absurd creationism is and how its doctrines are contradicted by the findings of science. In the UK that has accelerated the demise of Christianity and while it is more deep rooted in the US it won't be long before its demise there as well. Intelligent design cannot be a valid theory given that 99% of species have gone extinct-it is an absurd theory when that fact is considered..

Answer 5

"Scientific" Creationism isn't science. The Supreme Court ruled as such. Creationism does not teach critical reasoning. It is just a politically devised doctrine to wedge religion into schools and the courts see through every disguise it has taken on. If you want religious schools, create religious schools. Public schools should be pluralistic.

Answer 6

not so much creationism, but religion and morality. The morality of children nowadays are so non existentent. free sex, rudeness to parents and elderly, the list goes on.

they should have a religious study subject, whereby students must study a religion and can learn anything from Islam to Christianity to Buddhism to whatever.

all religions truely teaches goodness and morality.

to make it truely fair, add another belief to the religious study subject. "Evolutionist". so only those who wants to can "study" about evolution and not generalize and subject all to the belief of "evolution" when we KNOW that evolution has NOT been proved yet. It is still just a theory!

Answer 7

If Creationism is touched by schools, it should be done in a World Civilization sort of class. I'd argue a culture's religious beliefs help a student to better understand them. I agree 100% with you that no religion should be left out. (For instance, Shintoism should be given just as much attention as Christianity is given.)

Answer 8

Instead of teaching things like creation in Science class, teach real science, for example things that are proven. To teach Creation, there should be a separate class called Religious Education.

Answer 9

Intelligent Design is a valid theory, and there is evidence, which you can find plenty of with a little research, the reason you probably have never heard it, it was not taught to you. I don't believe that one should be taught independently of each other, but both can go together, whichever permutation of the two you choose to believe. But please understand that ID is not synonymous with Biblical Creationism, that is only one method of application to ID, evolution is another, and some go as far to say aliens were responsible for creation. Evidence for ID has been discarded by many (not all) museums, but because of associations with religion (which there should not be), many refuse to accept it.

Answer 10

The Christians don't seem to grasp what teaching creation in schools would be like. Teachers would have to go over many different creation myths such as the Muslim and Hindu myths as well as the Christian one. This would do more harm to the Christian faith than good because kids would see that the Christian story is no more true than the other religious creation myths. Maybe it would be a good thing to teach this to kids! Teach them Evolution and then teach them that creation is a myth. I like it.

Answer 11

So you don't want creationism taught in our schools but teaching the theory of evolution as indisputaible fact is acceptible?