Youwerecreated
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I am apathetic about creationism being taught in schools, so long as they teach evolution alongside it. Most of the children will realize mud people made in seven days is far worse an explanation; than non-life turning into life and then through the process of hundreds of millions of years leading to mankind.
I'm really much more emphatic that religion -undo the guise of creationism -has no place in public schools. What is really dangerous is the attitudes of the two primary science loathing fundie creationists in this thread who would want creationism (Christian creationism) taught as an alternative to real science. I don't want kids being dumbed-down and taught ancient superstitions in place of science because we live in a world of technology and we need critical thinkers in order to survive in this world. The USA is painfully unscientific enough as it is, and churning out generation after generation of dreamy-eyed creationist knuckleheads condemns us to a horrible fate of an also-ran. This is the kind of "Father Knows Best" nation we were in during the 1950's when suddenly Russia started sailing Sputniks over our heads and believe meI know from my grand-dad that fear then was riveting. Now, the goofy creationists want us to go back into that womb of ignorance? I think not. This is a technological world and we better be up on it, or we'll be the peasants running around with decaying weapons, not knowing how to fix or use them, and running around stone icons and trampling one another to death to worship our rocks. I want the USA strong in science because I want the USA strong. So keep religion where it belongs-- in the Dark Ages and let our kids learn science based upon knowledge and rational thought processes.
Many theories being taught in school have no business being taught in school's or atleast in science classes because they were not built by the scientific method. You know,the old test ,study,and observe method.
Maybe creationism and evolution should be taught in philosophy classes not science classes because you can't prove macroevolution and I can't prove God exists. I do believe ID however is more scientific then both.