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2007-06-10 07:29:05 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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No, it's not "fair." Creationism isn't science. Period. There is no valid, testable hypothesis, and there is no real evidence which supports it. This is an excellent example of why so many educated countries laugh at us, and it is also an example of why we are at the bottom of this list among fully developed countries in education. Religious teachings belong in religious schools, churches, and homes. Why must we continue to be the laughing stock of the educated world?

2007-06-10 07:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 5 0

Fairness would indicate that there's some kind of equality in each of them. This is not the case.

People should be aware of beliefs that many others share, even if they're ignorant, but this belief should not be considered equal to scientific research.

This is especially true in classrooms, where the idea is to teach science and reason, not every idea that anyone has ever had. Creationism does not use science at all. Just because evolution is not perceived as proof does not mean that creationism could be. They are independent of each other and should be considered as such. Besides, if you were to teach Christian creationism, you would have to teach the beliefs of everyone else in the world.

2007-06-10 15:23:13 · answer #2 · answered by Skye 5 · 2 0

Excellent video. I'm putting it on my blog. I am a TA in a biology department in a highly religious city and plan to try and become a biology professor. I have to deal with this issue a lot.

My answer:
No, it is not fair to give equal classroom time to creationism. I think this was also the original point of the FSM.

2007-06-10 14:45:48 · answer #3 · answered by Tik 2 · 3 0

How can you "hear both sides" when Creationists have no evidence to offer? The proof of that is the new "museum" filled with absurdities and untruths. What reasonable person would give this kind of nonsense "a fair hearing"??

2007-06-10 14:43:41 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 4 0

No.

If the argument was "Holocaust - Did it really happen"? Would it be fair to hear both sides of the argument?

Sometimes, there is just correct and incorrect. Despite what Fox News says, there are not always two equal sides to an argument.

2007-06-10 14:34:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

***Isn’t Intelligent Design just another way to get religion into schools?

Evolutionists keep a united front before the public, but in their journals they debate and argue with and fight each other. If evolution is proven to be fact, why the controversy among evolutionists in their journals? Because they still don’t agree on how evolution takes place. They are united only in the idea of natural, as opposed to supernatural, causes. For this ideology, they will fight to keep religion out of the debate about origins.

Christians keep a united front with Intelligent Design (ID). They also have various ideas on how old the earth is and how man came about. With ID, they unite their efforts to show by today’s science that an intelligent Creator is responsible for creation.

ID already has broad support across a number of disciplines. Archeologists use it to determine whether marks on a rock are caused by erosion or tools. Detectives and firefighters use it to determine if the scene was an accident or caused by a human agent. Cryptologists use it to determine if a message is encoded or not. SETI uses it to determine if signals from space are random or sent by intelligences from beyond space.

If the electron microscope had been invented before Darwin arrived on the scene, he would never have advanced his hypothesis on evolution of the species. The electron microscope shows the ordered, complex world of the single cell. If you can picture a train set complete with tracks, various cars for various purposes, loading and unloading stations, mechanisms for propelling the train, specific tracks to transport goods, timing mechanisms that prevent the trains from colliding, and factories to manufacture those goods, you have an idea of what’s in a single cell!

Before the introduction of the electron microscope, it was easy to think of life emerging from protoplasm, of a leg forming from a fin. Now that we know how complex those appendages are, we see the folly of continuing to believe that all things came about by chance. When you talk about evolution by chance causes, you are talking about old news. The evolutionist scientists have gone on to consider multiple parallel universes, mysticism and metaphysical ideas to explain the complex order around them. They are doing whatever they can to maintain their united front against a religious Creator – and coming up with wild theories!

Today’s science does not support the idea of mutations increasing genetic information—and so the evolutionists are moving on. They are happy to let the reigning falsehoods stay in the school textbooks because they steer the student into a “science proves naturalism” mindset—their goal all along.

2007-06-10 15:57:28 · answer #6 · answered by Steve Husting 4 · 0 2

If a debate isn't happening among scientists, then a debate shouldn't be presented in science classes. Simple as that. Evolution is the answer -- there is no "other side".

2007-06-10 14:38:07 · answer #7 · answered by . 7 · 4 0

Looked at both sides and I go with evolution.

2007-06-10 14:34:37 · answer #8 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 4 0

Timing would have a lot to do with coming up with any kind of conclusion to this topic.
I have watched the youtube video......................what was tacky to me was that there were no sides to creationism.
Yes it would fair if creationism had its own side on the youtube.

2007-06-10 15:01:20 · answer #9 · answered by white_painted_lady 5 · 0 1

Yes. Not only fair but a necessity. You will only know what a lot of no - sense Creationism is if you look at it.

2007-06-10 14:36:27 · answer #10 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0 1

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