Short video( outcome of the POWER of religious indoctrination): Should creationism be retaught in schools?

Question

This is a video I uploaded to Youtube regarding this controversial issue in the United States of America. It's very interesting; also supported by statistical fact:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dgnx5EgWd-s

Do not indoctrinate your children. Enlighten them to other possibilities, at least for the advancement of humanity.

www.samharris.org

Answer 1

It's called separation of church and state. Children should be given all the information available. Public schools are not responsible for their students private religious beliefs. Leave creationism to the church, and science to the schools.
If you really understand evolution, it doesn't say we came from monkeys, so those churchy people are misinformed.

Answer 2

Loved the video, using Bush as the teacher was especially a nice touch.

As for those statistics I have a bit of trouble believing them. Only 27% of people in the US believe in evolution and 64% want creationism taught in schools. The funny thing about statistics is that they do not tell you anything because people who gather data do not ask everyone in the US their opinion. When gathering data for statistics who, when and where you go to find people's opinion really does matter. Ask these questions in say San Fransico and compare them to say some small podunk town in the Mid-West and you are going to get very different stats.

As for teaching creationism, what a load of crap. I kind of like the idea of intelligent design (or as I used to call it guided evolution) but I do not want it taught in school because that is teaching religion and religion has no place in public schools (by the way I am a teacher).

Kids are not stupid, just give them the facts and let them find their own way. But as educators it is not our place to teach religion. Let me say that again. AS EDUCATORS IT IS NOT OUR PLACE TO TEACH RELIGION!!!!
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Answer 3

Evolutionary Theory has suffered setback after setback...and is not a credible science, simply a religious belief system. All missing link possibilities found to date:

Ramapithecus - only evidence, 2 inch piece of jawbone.

Australopithecus - southern ape, distinctly ape.

Lucy -chimpanzee

Java Man (homo erectus) only evidence, a skull cap and leg bone.

Nellie (Peking Man-Sinanthropus Pekinensis) assembled from fragments found with thousands of animal bones, including deer and elephants, 14 small skull fragments, 11 jawbones, 7 thigh fragments, 2 arm bones, 1 wrist bone, and 147 teeth.


Neanderthal - damaged skull, arthritic, rickets. (what would John Merrick's skull look like?)

Piltdown Man - only evidence, skull cap and jaw bone.

Nebraska Man - the only evidence, a fossilized pig tooth.

All discredited.

Then we have Homo Habilis, (1470 man) 2-2.8 million years old, found in hundreds of pieces without jawbone by noted Anthropologist Richard Leakey, it was reassmbled...and was surprisingly like that of a normal human man.

In Richard Leakey's ( the leading evolutionary expert on the "hominid" ancestors) own words..."It simply fits no previous models of human beginnings." "surprsingly large brain case," "it leaves in ruins the notion that all early fossils can be arranged in an orderly sequence of evolutionary change."

According to this information, Creation being taught in school as the act of an all powerful creator, an intelligent designer who provides not only a timeframe and methodology for life and creation, but also offers a reason/purpose for life that science has not ever been able to do, is just as if not more rational and logical than a farcical fabrication of poorly assemebled artifacts popogandized to serve one purpose...

to deny God.

Answer 4

Yes.

What has happened is we have removed Creationism from schoolis and replaced it with Darwinism (evolution).

How does it benifit to replacve one with the other when neither have been scientifically proved???

At least teach both.

I believe that God created the world and all living things.

Answer 5

i believe that creationism took place , but just to be fair...i think it should be taught along side of evolution, and other beliefs, give all the facts on each belief...and then let the student decide for themself. that way no one could complain that our children are being brainwashed. every time i hear the reason that one believes in evolution...it just strengthens my beliefs. i think it's only fair to add this belief to teaching in the classroom. kids are only exposed to one belief...that not every one agrees with. i find that a form of brainwashing.

Answer 6

HHAH

Man creationists are crazy.

when they say 60% of amercians want creationism in schools. I just think back to 1940 where 98% of germans thought jewish people should die. Just because its a statistic doesnt mean its right.

Answer 7

Creationism did not happen.

Or do they really believe that Global Warming has a direct inverse relationship with the decline of pirates?

Sweet vid, but the stats seem strange. "You can say anything with statistics, 17% of all people know that." - Homer Simpson.

Answer 8

creationism in terms of intelligent design should be taught yes...but even as a christian i don't think we need creationism as per the bible....stick with scientific facts which intelligent design clearly uses and go with that. let people decide for themselves. when you see the proof of intelligent design it's hard to believe in theories of evolution unless you've been indoctrinated and are brainwashed as so many millions are.

of course we know those proponents of evilution will never allow freedom of thought and to have their theories challenged by true science and not theories.

Answer 9

Creationism is silly fiction, which is bad enough. But what is worse is that it is not science: it is irrefutable, and therefore useless. Evolution is now a proven fact; details available on request.

Answer 10

I say teach both views side by side or neither one. Theories are considered truth even if they can't be proved, so what's the difference?