Quote:I'm not against stimulating thought.  But Creationism is a religious concept, not a scientific one.  Teachers may (and should) provide scientific critiques of evolution.  But they should not teach creationism.  An Intelligent Designer can neither be proven nor disproven by science.  


Creationism could be talked about maybe in a class like Comparative Religion.  But it has no place in a science class.  And most people don't take Comparative Religion.  

 

You seem to miss the point.  Teaching Creationism is not teaching religion.  It's teaching a concept and an idea.  This has nothing to do with science.  Is political science really a "science" or is it teaching ideas and concepts?

 

Nobody is saying that that Creationism should be taught as a "science", however if brought up in an Evolution Theory type of class, then it encourages thought.  Isn't that what education is supposed to do?  Stimulate thought and ideas?  What you and some other posters on here propose is that Creationism is "false, therefore it should not be taught".  That goes back to the video that I linked to earlier where Steve Wozniak describes that every student "must come up with the same answer" rather than stimulating the mind and letting students come up with their own conclusion(s).  At that point, it's not education, it's indoctrination.

 

What you are saying is that students "must embrace evolution" and "shun anything that has to do with creationism".  Again I say, that's indoctrination not education.

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