Should Creationism Be Taught in Public Schools?

Debate over science and religion continues as we approach Darwin's 200th birthday

By U.S. News Staff

January 26, 2009 RSS Feed Print

Should creationism be taught in public schools? On one hand, some argue that treating the Bible as a threat blocks a legitimate avenue of study. On the other, opponents say that to deny natural selection is to ignore fact and that, with the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth approaching, the debate should have ended long ago. What do you think? Post your thoughts.

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Tags:: evolution,; religion,; public schools,; science,; education

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America embarasses itself by even allowing this argument. There is no scientific debate, or controversy, evolution is a solid scientific theory (and incidently, its also likely a fact), creationism is a religious faith, pretending to be science. No scientific body (NOT ONE) has suggested teaching creationism in science class. The only folks pushing creationism (that's "Christian Creationism", none of the hundreds of religious "creation" stories, just Christian) are fundamentalist Christian preachers, and politicians. Anyone thinking creationism isn't religion just needs to read the blog posts supporting creationism, on any site dealing with the topic. This arguement is idiotic, its embarassing, its wasting money in legislatures and school districts, its wasting many millions of hours of our kids classtime, its making America more of a laughing stock.

biged59 of FL 2:12AM May 21, 2012

the problem with teaching evolution and not creationism is that they are only providing one side to the ideas available for how the world was created. and they're teaching evolution as a fact and proven science even though it is still a "theory" this is implanting into the minds of children that there is only one possibility for how we came to be and that creationism is just a fairytale type of idea when there are millions of unanswered questions in evolution that can be answered with the concept of intelligent design. its not that they should be teaching everything about the Bible and religion in school thats the job of the church, but they should at least inform the students of both sides rather than fooling them into thinking that evolution is the only possibility.

john of CA 1:50PM May 12, 2012

OK so everyone on here that wrote that Evolution is just a theory type in to your favorite search engine scientific theory so you actually know what it means. When you say that it is just a theory it makes you sound ignorant to what a theory is. Creation is not a theory it has never stood up to. It is a Theist point of view.

Wow of CA 8:38PM April 30, 2012

Should Creationism Be Taught in Public Schools?

Debate over science and religion continues as we approach Darwin's 200th birthday

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