Do they even teach evolution in high schools?

Question

I don't really remember covering in high school. I mostly learned it in college.

Answer 1

yeah. they do. not all of it though.

eugenics isn't covered in most classes...they took hitler out of science and put him in history...go figure.

Answer 2

I remember highschool boilogy as very basic, they touched on some genetics and how things can chnage but mostly through proven things like breeding plants and animals. I don't recall them ever mentioning evolution. I do remember a study they showed us in where fruit flys had there wings cut off in successive generations for a long period of time and gave them food on the ground, the flys still grew wings in every generation. I think they did that to refute evolution. Good question though, i'll have to ask some former classmates about this.

Answer 3

Yes, they still teach evolution in high school...as a matter of fact its the only version they teach. You wont find any teachings on creation to be in the textbooks though (the belief that God created everything and we did not evolve from animals) You wont find that because its the sciences that teach evolution and any scientist would have a hard time believing in creation. My daughter's sophmore class had someone bring up creation in their evolution studies and they had a good debate on it. Everyone got to share their side and everyone got to hear different opinions.

Answer 4

It sorta depends how old you are and what state you lived in when you went to high school.

Pre 1987, it was legal to teach creatioism or (in some states) to just avoid teh question altogether.

When I was in high school, evolution was discussed as a mechanism for the origin of species but the internal mechanisms of evolution were not covered. We did mainly anaatomy and taxonomy crap (which I hated).

Answer 5

Only the ones without kids who don't know what the school curriculum is, those with kids in school who do not keep track or even talk to their kids about what is being taught in school, those who have no idea but it sounds good to them since prayer is not allowed in school, and idiots. Evolution is addressed, but not to the point of there being a class strictly for it.

Answer 6

Well, I graduated in the Eighties, before the Holy Revelation of Intelligent Design.

We studied it, but only to see how the various animals relate to each other. We studied worms, fish, frogs, mammals, that sort of thing.

Of course, we also studied geology and the history of the earth (which we learned took (from our Christian teacher,) a lot longer than 6000 years.

Answer 7

Depends where you live. In some of the more benighted backwoods of America, evolution in public high school is up for debate every year.

Answer 8

The movie "Inherit the Wind" is enormously more definitive than is given credit for. It shows Evolution vs. Religion, which is really the conflict. It is not science vs. religion, but scientism, which pretends to be science, but is really wishful thinking. Particularly, what if?
God did not really know what we did and what we ARE?

Answer 9

Yes, they still teach evolution in high-school. But to tell you the truth I believe it takes just as much faith to believe it.
Many evolutionists and atheists alike have - throughout history - shunned Scripture and the lessons learned therein by claiming that Creation Science isn't testable, repeatable, observable, and so forth. As this is true about certain aspects of Creation Science, this is also true about certain aspects of Evolutionary "Science". One cannot deny the overwhelming amounts of assumptions and un-justifiable dedications that materialists demonstrate.

Both Creation and Evolutionism start with philosophical assumptions. Evolutionists (traditionally) start with the assumption that God has no intervention in this world. This isn't a testable conclusion; they didn't come to this conclusion by science. Creationists have the philosophical position that God has partaken in the history of this earth, and that He has revealed the True history of the earth through His infallible Word.

As you can see, both Creation and Evolutionism start with philosophical premises. There are many aspects of the Creation Theory that are indeed testable also. For instance, the Bible states that earth was created roughly 6,000 years ago1, in six literal days2. Evolutionism claims that the earth came into existence some 3-5 billion years ago3, over a very long and tedious process of formation. Both of these teachings can be tested to some extent. It's important to also emphasize the knowledge difference between fallible man (who is a fallen creature), and the Omniscient God, Creator and sustainer of all.

When man inspects the earth, the biosphere, the world around us, we formulate hypothesis as to how things came to be as they are today. After data is brought in and analyzed, we can test our hypothesis and see what outcomes we're given. Creationists already have the Truth; the earth was created roughly 6,000 years ago1. Evolutionists wish to construct their own truth; the earth formed slowly over billions of years. Both of these are subject to the same scientific method. When we observe the outpourings of data rendered from the science, we can see that the evidence greatly supports the idea of a young-earth (6,000 years old).

Now, we can see that both Creation and Evolutionism have non-testable aspects about them, and also testable aspects about them as well. Creation Science Evangelism wishes not to invite Creation into public schools, but only to have incorrect information extracted from taxpayer-purchased textbooks. Schools have a legal, as well as moral obligation to remain truthful to our students. Unfortunately, many schools today have veered from this path and have accepted voodoo-science as part of their curriculum. Material such as the gill slits, the horse evolution, the human evolution, the evolution of the giraffe, and so much more are still presented to children as facts, and done so dogmatically.

When will America - as well as the rest of the World - wake up and smell the indoctrination. Millions of children everyday are being presented with information that is testable, has been tested, and is now scratched off as untrue in the scientific literature. Even our SAT's are presenting incorrect information to our fervent studiers. Both Creation and Evolutionism are testable in certain areas and un-testable in others, both have been tested, and only one prevails - Creation. We were fearfully and wonderfully created, and we will soon stand before He that creates and give an account for the life we lived. Will you be ready?4

Answer 10

Yeah, my schools always had it as part of the normal science class curriculum. (Graduated HS in '97) And the amazing thing...no one seemed to have a problem with that...imagine that.

Answer 11

actually they still teach evolution in high schools....its a major topic for science teachers ... but it really doesn't matter what class you are in those teachers who belive in it will discuss it all the time .... i personally don't belive in it but i hope this answers your questions