Would you say that 50% of Americans want creationism in the classroom?

Answer 1

You must consider...whos brand of creationism will be in the classroom...the same reason we don't want religion and government to merge...it will be bias toward whichever church the people in charge attend. We need to reach a consensus on the creationism to be taught and the "origin of life" theory to be taught. If you do one, you should do the other and let the kid decide which they will believe...wait a minute, that's not a science class anymore but a political debate...
The teachers will have to be robots because they will not be able to keep their own beliefs out of the discussion...I know I couldn't.
If they taught evolution for what it is, a theory, they could just as easily teach the difference between micro-evolution and macro-evolution, as well as the probability of Creation/Intelligent Design, etc. There is not enough time in the classroom to teach any of it, cause in California, we teach kids to pass a test now, not the other stuff.

Answer 2

If creationism is even mentioned in the classroom, it should be in a social sciences class of some kind, in an objective discussion on the topic of religion. Being a claim, not really even a theory, one made from religious texts and promoted only by adherents of that religion, it deserves no more than 30 seconds of time in a science classroom, and that would be only to state that legitimate science does not support its claims. There are probably many people who would not be even as lenient as I am about its presence in schools. I have no idea what actual figures exist about this, but I'd expect that those in supporting it taught as science are far less than 50%.

Answer 3

No. only 50% of Evangelical Fundamentalist Christians want Creationism in public Schools. Most everyone else see Creationism for what it truly IS. Religious NON-Science. It is NON-sicence because it is based upon principles of FAITH and is NOT subject to the peer reviewed publicatin in Scientific journals before it has become accepted in the overall Scientific community. They belive that evolution is just a theory entirrely. They're WRONG on that, Evolution is a FACT. the Theory is not THAT it exists, the Theory is the HOW it works. That evolution is universally accepted in Scientific circles. The arguments still rage about the HOW it works, which is where the theory comes in

Answer 4

Not even close. Look at the school boards that were taken over by fundamentalist Christians, the ones that put the "Evolution is only a theory" stickers in the biology books. Parents got angry and booted them all out. The only people willing to tolerate the teaching of ID in schools are completely ignorant of what it is and think it actually has extra biological information. The overwhelming majority of Americans want science and religion unambiguously separated. They don't talk about the issue much, but when the line is crossed, they move into action.

Answer 5

Yes. Most Americans are religious and would like creationism to have an equal say. The ideal of free speech can never be absolute as long as the government decides what children are to be taught and what people should believe. Whatever beliefs the government chooses to promote, be it evolution or any other will always be in conflict with someone else's beliefs. It is therefore necessary for the school system to be privatized so that individuals will have the freedom to choose for themselves what they believe and what school to send their child to.

Answer 6

Ok here is the thing.....The majority of the U.S. population believes in God or a supream being and would love to have creationism in the classrooms but it seems to be that the minority (Aeithists) are the ones keeping it out of the school saying it is unconstitutional when acctually prohibiting the practice of religion in a public place such as a school, it really the un constitutional thing when the Bill of Rights says we have freedom of realigion. Where is that freedom if they can't even teach creationism in the schools?

Answer 7

Evolution is what man has discovered about the way the universe was created: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.", covers the first 14.5 billions years or so (subject to change). Scientist are just beginning to say, that time does not exist. so don't get wrapped around the six days thing. This is the best of all possible worlds at the present, because it was created to evolve into something better. Things are getting better. I mean, they don't ride into town and kill all the babies any more. They don't tear down the walls, and kill a third of the people and sell the rest into slavery (Alexander at Tyre) these days.

Answer 8

So many people are confusing biblical creationism with intelligent design. "Intelligent Design is the study of patterns in nature that are best explained as the result of intelligence" (Dr. William Dembski). That's it; it says nothing of who the creator is and how he/she/it/they did it.

I have found that most Christians I know don't want biblical creationism taught in science classes anyway. What we want is for molecules-to-man evolution to be taught with all its warts (they are not even allowed to present evidence that would put evolution in a poor light).

And we want intelligent design to at least to be presented (that is science). Reliable methods for detecting design exist and are employed in forensics, archeology, and data fraud analysis. These methods can easily be employed to detect design in biological systems.

When being interviewed by Tavis Smiley, Dr. Stephen Meyer said, “There are developments in some technical fields, complexity and information sciences, that actually enable us to distinguish the results of intelligence as a cause from natural processes. When we run those modes of analysis on the information in DNA, they kick out the answer, ‘Yeah, this was intelligently designed’ . . . There is actually a science of design detection and when you analyze life through the filters of that science, it shows that life was intelligently designed.”

I agree with George Bush, "Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about . . . Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.”

Good science teaching should include controversies.

Answer 9

No.

When it came down to a creationism vs science vote in Dover PA the vast majority voted the creationists off the school board.

Same for Kansas. (Although they keep getting back by keeping stum about creationism and standing on the Republican ticket. But every time it comes to creationism vs science they get kicked off again.)

If they can't win in Dover PA or Kansas then there is no way that they are going to get 50% over the rest of the US.

Answer 10

It doesn't matter. Schools are state institutions and therefore religion cannot be forced into them. Creationism can easily be added as a volunteer elective course though. You just can't put it in a science class. Science is only conclusions based on observable facts and experimentation using the scientific method. While this does not rule out Creationism as truth, you can't prove it with know scientific evidence and therefore it needs to be outside of the core of classes.