Teaching evolution in schools: Who should be responsible for deciding what curriculum is acceptable to teach?

Answer 1

Evolution needs to be taught in school as a science.
If your religious beliefs are different, you will teach your children at home or in their religious education.
The school board [ that you voted for ] decides what to teach.

Answer 2

Evolution is a theory and should be taught in school. It is part of a science curriculum. There is validity. Teachers of evolution do not seek to eradicate religious beliefs. But religion is to be taught AT HOME since it is personal beliefs and therefore not the public school system's responsibility. But it is the school system's responsibility to educate the basic curriculum which evolution happens to be a part of whether your religious beliefs agree with it or not. Therefore it is the public school system who is responsible for deciding whether or not it should he taught. Happy New Year.

Answer 3

I would say a two, maybe three panels should meet and discuss/debate the curriculum choices.. One, a panel of scientists and people in the field of science, research, and technology; the second panel, a focused cross-section of people from the community--business leaders, and so on. The third panel, and the most important one, would be composed of a cross-section of the parents of children who attend the schools in that particular district (assuming curriculum decisions are being made on the district level).
The parents should have a say in what their kids are going to learn about, and if they want them to hear about the different theories going around at the time (be they evolution OR creationism, etc) then they need to have a forum to vocalize that desire.
On another note...scientists would be great people to ask about curriculum choices. However, scientists themselves would tell you that science is only able to define and talk about things that are "measurable"--able to be seen with empirical data ('empirical' meaning you can see it for yourself). If something happens that cannot yet be "measured" by any technology we have as of yet, scientists cannot study or discuss it, as they have no empirical data to look at. Therefore, if something *other* than evolution is happening/happened--whether or not it has anything to do with a God/creator is irrelevant--scientists would be unable to postulate about it. This is where theories come in, ideas that no one can prove; students would be done a great disservice if curriculae left these out and picked only one idea to disseminate in the schools.

Answer 4

School boards should not be deciding what is taught in the curriculum. Curriculum should be based on the learning standards for that particular state.

You can have a look at the Illinois Learning Standards here:
http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/
and you can see the National Science Education Standards here:
http://fermat.nap.edu/html/nses/6e.html#csc912

Answer 5

Students need to know that both theories exist, but they should be taught in an entirely educational context. Teachers are not there to preach their beliefs to the students, they are there to educate them. Whether teachers believe in Creationism or Evolution, their job is to merely present the material and allow the students to apply this knowledge in a constructive way. Students can compare and contrast the two theories in writing assignments or role playing activities. Teachers should be really careful with this subject, but it can be taught.

Answer 6

There should be a national science curriculum, determined by a panel of scientists and educators at the national level.

Unfortunately, our founding fathers decided to divide the nation up into states, and some of the states are decidedly retarded when it comes to science.

Answer 7

The science curriculum should be determined by science teachers. Scientists do not determine what should be taught in religious studies, non-scientists should not determine what is taught in science.

Answer 8

Most probably your school board. Ask them if we come from monkeys. LOL

Answer 9

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The 20th century, which we have just left behind us, was a century of war and conflict, leading to disasters, pain, massacres, poverty, and enormous destruction. Millions of people were killed, massacred, abandoned to hunger and death, and left without home or shelter, protection, or support. And all for nothing: in the name of serving deviant ideologies. Millions were left exposed to inhuman treatment that not even animals should be allowed to suffer. On nearly every occasion there were despots' and dictators' signatures beneath all the suffering and disasters: Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco… While some of these men shared the same ideology, others were enemies to the death. For the simple reason that their ideologies were opposed to each other, they dragged societies into conflict and turned brother against brother, having them start wars, throw bombs, burn and destroy cars, homes, and shops, and hold riotous demonstrations. Putting weapons in their hands, they had them pitilessly beat the young, the old, men, women, and children to death or stand them against a wall and shoot them… They were ruthless enough to hold a gun to a person's head and, looking into his eyes, kill him, and crush his head with their feet, just because he supported another idea. They ejected people from their homes, whether women, children, or the elderly…
That is a short resume of the nightmares of the 20th century that we have just emerged from: people who supported conflicting ideas and who drowned mankind in pain and blood in the name of supporting these ideologies.
Fascism and Communism come at the head of the ideologies that caused mankind to suffer those dark days. These are seen as enemies, as ideas that tried to destroy each other. In actual fact, there is a most interesting truth here: for these ideologies were nourished by a single ideological source, drew strength and support from that source, and, thanks to that source, were able to draw societies to their side. At first sight, this source has never drawn any attention, has always remained behind the scenes up until now, and has always shown people its innocent-looking face. That source is the materialist philosophy, and DARWINISM, the state of that philosophy as adapted to nature.
Darwinism emerged in the 19th century as the restating of a myth, dating back to the Sumerians and Ancient Greece, by the amateur biologist Charles Darwin, and has since then formed the fundamental idea behind all the ideologies that have been harmful to mankind. Wearing a so-called scientific mask, it allowed these ideologies and their supporters' practical measures to win a false legitimacy.
By means of this false legitimacy the theory of evolution soon left the fields of knowledge of biology and palaeontology and began to comment on fields from human relations to history, and to influence fields from politics to social life. Because some particular claims of Darwinism supported several currents of thought which began to come into motion and take shape in the 19th century, it gained wide support from these circles. In particular, people began trying to apply the idea that there is a "fight for survival" among living creatures in nature, and as a result, the idea that "the strong survive, the others are defeated and disappear" began to be applied to human thought and behaviour. When Darwinism's claim that nature was a place of struggle and conflict began to be applied to human beings and societies, Hitler's deviation of building a master race, Marx's claim that "the history of mankind is the history of class struggle," capitalism's provision for the "strong growing even stronger at the expense of the weak," the colonisation of third world countries by such imperialist nations as Britain and their suffering inhuman treatment, together with the fact that coloured people still face racist attacks and discrimination, all found some kind of justification.
Despite his being an evolutionist, Robert Wright, the author of the book The Moral Animal summarises the disasters that the theory of evolution has brought to the history of mankind in this way:

Evolutionary theory, after all, has a long and largely sordid history of application to human affairs. After being mingled with political philosophy around the turn of the century to form the vague ideology known as "social Darwinism," it played into the hands of racists, fascists, and the most heartless sort of capitalists.1

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and from the evidence it contains, Darwinism is not just a theory which attempts to explain the origin of life and which is restricted to the field of scientific knowledge. Darwinism is a dogma still stubbornly defended by the supporters of certain ideologies, despite the fact that it has been proven totally invalid from the scientific point of view. In our day many scientists, politicians and men of ideas, whether aware or not of Darwinism's dark face, lend their support to this dogma.
If everyone comes to know the scientific invalidity of this theory, which acts as an inspiration for cruel dictators, and ruthless, inhuman, and self-centred mentalities and currents of thought, that will spell the end of these harmful ideologies. Those who do and systematise evil will be unable to defend themselves by saying, "But this is a law of nature." They will have no more so-called scientific backing for their self-centred, selfish, and pitiless world view.
Once the idea of Darwinism, the root of harmful ideologies, is finally overturned, only one truth will remain. That is the truth that all human beings and the universe itself were created by Allah (God). People who understand this will also realise that the only reality and the only truth are in the holy book He sent down to us. When a large majority of people come to realise this truth, the pains, troubles, massacres, disasters, injustices, and poverty in the world will be replaced by enlightenment, openness, wealth, plenty, health and abundance. For this, every false idea harmful to humanity must be conquered and left to rot by the holy idea which will bring beauty to mankind. To reply to stones by throwing others, to answer blows with blows, to answer the aggressor with more aggression is not a solution. The solution is to bring down the ideas of those who do these things and to explain, patiently and kindly, the one truth with which they must replace them.
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