Creation in Public Schools.

I just want to get the pulse of this forum by just asking a simple question. Do you think it is appropriate for Creation to be taught along side Evolution in a biology class?

No, because there is little reasonable evidence for it. Just because alot of people believe it doesn't make it instantly legitimate. Do not thumb your nose at science while you are teaching it is the moral of this story.

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• Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. (I think I think, therefore I think I am.)

I'm so profound it hurts.

And now that I have posted I see that it got most of my information wrong. I am not a female, I live in the U.S. not Spain, and I'm not an atheist.

Nope. Science curriculums (like most curriculums) are designed to teach the best, mainstream knowledge that can be reached by the consensus of those that study it and that has been peer reviewed for accuracy and validity. Creationism isn't even close to that.

Would you want 'alternative' histories taught in history class that are simply the thoughts of a minority of historians who cannot back up their 'alternative' histories with evidence, research, and peer review?

No, because it is not on a par with evolution scientifically.

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Greatest Hovind quote of all time, as voted for by members of CF:
"Teaching the pagan religion of evolutionism is a waste of valuable class time and textbook space. It is also one of the reasons American kids don't test as well in science as kids in other parts of the world."

And what exactly has creation to do with biology anyway?

Well, the problem is that there is a lot of evidence towards, it. More then any other theory, that is why it is taught opposed to another.

[QOUTE=revolutio]Just because alot of people believe it doesn't make it instantly legitimate.[/QOUTE]

Wow, I have been trying to express that to a lot of very nieve christians.

Rev. DSD

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"He is wisest who knows he does not know." -Socrates-

I have taught biology and evolution.

I stress the point that there are some important questions still (which is always the case in any science). But evolution remains the best science we have to explain the origin of the species.

I will discuss ID and IC, and I will also discuss the science that refutes such arguments.

But creationism is not science...it should be taught in a religion class not in a science class.

Well what are you waiting for? Start a thread up and start laying out the evidence.

There is a serious dearth around here of alterior view points.

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• Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. (I think I think, therefore I think I am.)

I'm so profound it hurts.

Some fundamentalists want both sides of the origin of life coin addressed. It isn't so much that they want Creation taught, it's that they want Intelligent Design taught along with Evolution. Although in my book, there isn't much difference between Creation and Intelligent Design.