Should schools teach Creationism, or evolution?

Question

Since 1963, when evolution first appeared in textbooks in public schools; crime rose by over 500%. Creationism teaches kids they are a special person that a special God loves and has a divine purpose for; evolution leaves no hope.

Evolution teaches that science and nature are the causes of the species known as Human and that we came from living organisms derived from rocks millions of years ago. It leaves religion to be dubbed as a myth, or fictional creation by mankind.

This is a debate, therefore I want your true opinions and answers. No slander, or blasphemy please.

Answer 1

Your statistics are misleading assuming they are accurate, and I doubt they are.  Anyway, teaching students the truth about evolution could not possibly be a reason for any increase in crime rates.  Evolution is a scientific and reasonable explanation of how the many species came to be formed and doesn't exist to be a moral booster for depressed Christians.

Your understanding of what evolution is is filled with misconceptions and a lack of education.  Evolution has nothing to say about religion as science must be based on what can be verified or proven.  Beliefs cannot be proven.  If beliefs could be proven there would be only one religion in this world.  The fact that there are many is proof that they cannot be proven.

I highly recommend that you take a course at your local community college in evolutionary biology.  You will learn why creationism is NOT a science and why evolution IS and why it is so important.  It will also allow you to get away from the influence of the hucksters who are misleading you.

Don't be afraid of learning the truth and getting out from under the control of the people who are misleading you and lying to you.  The only people who don't accept evolution are ignorant people.

Answer 2

Where on earth did you hear that they just started teaching evolution in schools in 1963?

This is just not true.

Evolution has been accepted within the scientific community since the 1800's.    Science eachers have been teaching it for almost as long.  It is only after Creationists started pushing laws into legislatures in the 1920's, that courts have (absolutely correctly) been striking these down as blatant attempts to get religion into schools.

Surely you have heard of the Scopes trial where a biology teacher John Scopes was tried for violating a law against the teaching of evolution.  That was in *1925*!    Why would they be passing laws outlawing the teaching of evolution if they didn't start teaching it until 1963?

Second, did you think of what else happened in 1963?  

* George Wallace became governor of Alabama and tries to block integration.

* Pope John XXIII died.

* Medgar Evars was murderd in Jackson, Mississippi.

* ... and oh, a certain President JFK was assasinated.

So even if 963 was the first year that evolution was taught in schools (which it wasn't) ... why on earth do you think that correlation means anything.

Answer 3

I don't think either should be taught, except within the context of religion or philosophy, as they seek to answer the fundamental question of "Where did we come from?"

The evolutionary worldview for the existence of life predates Christianity by hundreds of years and is no more scientific now than it was then.

Answer 4

First of all you never take the bible literally it has been change over and over for political reasons its just a book the teaches good moral codes.

Secondly they should teach evolution of creationisim because evolution makes more sense i mean adam and eve became cave me wtf dosent make sense so yea.

I belive in god and jesus but srry folks the bible has been alterd so many times and so much has been left out that it dosent make sense to take anything but a few things seriously or litteraly.

Answer 5

Neither. Because neither have been proven, both are equally invalid. Schools should teach only valid scientifically proven facts.

because otherwise, they could try and teach that gravity was caused by invisible pigs pushing things together (provided that they have no mass or capacity to make noise). Well it hasn't been disproven, but it would be perverse to treat any of these as scientific facts.

Answer 6

Creation may make you feel special, but it's bullshit.  Drugs are fun too - should we hand them out to kids?

I can see why you don't want your kids to learn evolution - you never learned it yourself.  Take a real science class before claiming 'people came from rocks'.  And then take yourself apart and find the piece that's not a gas or mineral.

Since I'm assuming anyone saying creation is bullshit counts as blasphemy in your book, why did you even bother?

Answer 7

Evolution appeared in public schools well before 1963. What do you think the Scopes Trial was about?

There is no way to know if crime rose by over 500% since 1963.  It may be that reported crime rose, but does that mean (1) relative to population? (2) for the same crimes or including new laws? (3) in which areas? (4) etc.

Creationism does not hold that children are special.  Just that some plan was devised and implemented.   (Maybe "god" has the 500% increase in crime as part of the plan.)

Evolution does not teach cause-effect behavior.   Natural Selection is a filter for the better suited of whatever random changes happen.  Evolution has no stance on religion.

I hope you find judgment before intolerance.