Now let's see, evolution has nothing do with the origin of life.
Indeed. Mind spreading that around among your fellow creationists? It's really annoying to have to correct people on that so frequently.
Yet evolutionists have a save-young-minds reaction to the teaching of Creationism or Intelligent Design as a way of explaining the origin of life.
Me personally? Not really. It's more a matter of not showing favoritism towards one religion over another, and since that would entail teaching kids every different creation story from all the modern religions at a minimum, it just isn't feasible. Kids have their parents and church for that anyways, and plenty of parents aren't religious or creationists and wouldn't want their kid to learn that.
To be very blunt, though, the origin of life is barely given a footnote until college. That is, "at one point there wasn't any life on this planet, and there is evidence of it starting about 3.5 billion years ago" sums up my public school education on abiogenesis. The term itself wasn't even mentioned, and I took AP Bio in high school.
The biggest issue with teaching kids creationism (which intelligent design is just another term for) is that there isn't any strong evidence supporting it. Thus, there's no legal justification for teaching it.
And atheists feel obliged to poke of fun of Creationism and Intelligent Design on a Christian forum.
I'm not poking fun. I'm actually desperately searching for creationist arguments I myself would find convincing. Alas, about 4 years of being a member of this site have left me disappointed thus far. Furthermore, misrepresenting the opposing viewpoint with strawmen and quote mines is unforgivable, no matter what side of the debate employs those tactics. I've called out people, regardless of their position, for using bad arguments. There's an atheist that comes and goes from here well-known for his garbage arguments and attitude that usually gets banned about a week or two in, and then comes back a couple months later with a new account. That's the only atheist ever on here that I would say detests religion, and no one seems to respect him. I sure don't.
Why not go tutor young minds in math? Save them from a life of retail employment.
Funnily enough, I have tutored people in math before. In high school, I tutored dyslexic students and other kids with learning disabilities. I actually spun myself around and tried to solve basic math problems to get a handle of what it was to be dyslexic and try to do those problems. Not every dyslexic person is the same in how they experience it, and I notice a lot of them had speech issues, like stutters. Quite a few that had issues with math actually were pretty good at reading. Heck, my fiance is dyslexic, and his reading speed keeps up with me (272 words per minute), and he can spell just fine as long as it isn't out loud. Can't do more than basic math without extreme difficulty, though, and I can't imagine how hard long division must be for a dyslexic person.
