How many people really want Creationism / ID taught in schools?

Question

Take the Poll.

State your opinion.

But keep it short.

Answer 1

In bible school it is ok, In private schools its ok, in public schools no. The reason is, that if your paying for your kids education in a private school or bible school, your choosing the stuff you would like your child to learn. if your child is in a public school, your going by the goverments rule of seperation of church and state.

Answer 2

I don't, but if it would shut them up, I think it could be taught in about 30 seconds. There really isn't much to it.

"O.k. children, listen up. There are some people who advance the idea that the universe was created by a supernatural entity. It is unknown how or why the universe was created by this supernatural entity, although many people have many different ideas. One example is the creation story in Genesis. Another is the creation story in the Hindu religion, and still others can be found in the Shinto and Buddhist religions, not to mention the aborigines in Australia and the stone age peoples of New Guinea and the south pacific. There have been many other creation stories found in older cultures such as Norse, Greek, Roman, Chinese, Aztec, Inca, Hawaiian, various American Indian, and a whole host of other cultures and societies.

The basis for creationism is purely faith. The basis for intelligent design centers around the idea or supposition that the universe is either too complex or too perfect, or both, to have arisen through purely natural forces and that by its very nature a designer is required.

In addition, while some concepts of creationism and intelligent design exclude evolution as a working concept, it is thought by some that a creator or intelligent designer was the architect of all the natural laws as well as the process of biological evolution."

How's that? Can we have teachers hand out a sheet of paper with that written on it and call it a day?

Answer 3

i'm a Christian against clever layout and creationism tought in colleges. I see no biblical foundation to maintain on with fallible technology to information the introduction of existence in the worldwide. that's to no longer say that they don't have some solutions discovered. yet how might they understand in the event that they are one hundred% dazzling of their doctrine? yet, i'm nonetheless an opponent of evolution. i hit upon it too a giggle that such concepts usually come from people who have faith that there would desire to continuously be an equivalent volume of order and chaos interior the worldwide. that's stressful to enhance mankind with that variety of questioning. i won't be in a position to declare that the area in Darfur, Russia or Iraq, sounds like order. If i visit presume that order will come from it, that's going to likely be from loving their neighbor, no longer having an "Enlightened" white guy kill them and tell them that that's the only way. that's, at suitable, controlled chaos. there is not any order.

Answer 4

Yes.

Why: In school we are taught to be tolorant of others. But when it comes to a theory that over 90% of americans believe ( in GOD) how are we teaching our children to be tolorant when we leave it out? were only telling them that 90% of people dont matter.

If were going to teach tolorance in schools, then why not start with the only belief that most americans share.. GOD.
If there is a GOD this world came from him. WE dont have to sponcer any one religion. But we could say some thing as simple as....

World 101. in this class we will cover the 4 most taught/believed in theorys of the formation of the earth, this class will include creationism (a belief that a GOD made it) evolution (a belief that things evolved, changed from one thing to the next giving us life as we know it today)

Answer 5

I don't think it should be banned, per say. But it definitely shouldn't be taught as "science". As long as it's (1) optional and (2) taught in the context of a religious belief, then I'm okay with it.

Answer 6

I definately don't.... school should be about teaching facts not ideologies. Even those who think they want it in their schools would end up argueing over the specifics once it was in place. Freedom of Religion means this shouldn't be in schools either since it is really religious propaganda that represents a small portion of religion anyway!

Answer 7

No way in the world do I want any teacher pushing their ideas on my son. I had a teacher that did teach stuff like that when I was a middle schooler and I felt uncomfortable in that class the whole year. Save it for Sunday School.

Answer 8

Not me.

If it was taught in schools, every other creation myth would have to be taught as well. They couldn't spend any time on real science with so many mythologies to cover.

Answer 9

If I was a kid, I'd love it. It'll be the easiest exams ever. The answer to every question asked will be "God did it". Straight A's for all kids. Cool.

But, of course it shouldn't be taught in schools. It goes against freedom of religion to do so.

Answer 10

Yep. Evolution is a religious belief (the Army Chaplain's handbook lists atheism as a religion). So why not teach creation.

Oh, and ID is not Creationism. It should appeal to athiests - it doesn't talk about God, but uses science (the same scientific approach used for evolutionists), to say that the universe is too complex to be spontaneous.

Answer 11

Absolutely NOT! Its propaganda with no other research or proof then a single book. That's not enough sources for me to consider it fact. Its religious. It belongs in Sunday school. My child would never be allowed in that class on the principle of that alone.