Three reasons as to why creationism should not be taught in public schools?

Question

It's for a persuasive bioethics speech.

Answer 1

1. If its a public school, it would spread the ideas of Christianity and it would literally s***w the 1st Amendment of freedom of religion

2. There is no proof as of right now that creationism is actually true... it is still a theory

3. im working on it

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Answer 2

1. No evidence that the bible god or any other god created the universe

2. Religious based/biased

3. See #1

Answer 3

Reason 1: The teacher might bias and teach their own opinion on the subject.....

thats all i got.....

Answer 4

1.  It's not science - it's not testable, predictive, or falsifiable.  They have no 'theory' and no research.  

2.  It's religion, and we don't teach religion in public schools - not in the science classes anyway.

3.  Many states are trying to pass 'academic freedom' laws to let teachers teach whatever they want (science or not) and kids to put down 'god did it' without losing any credit.  These courses will not count as science courses when the kids apply to college - they're trying to keep a whole generation out of science, medicine, engineering, and education in general.  The US economy is based on science, medicine, and technology.  You do the math - as long as your math teacher didn't think it was her right to teach you that 2+2=7 if you believe it enough.

Answer 5

There's only one reason, the First Amendment of the Constitution. Creationism is a religious doctrine. Teaching it in public schools promotes a religion which clearly violates the first amendment.

Answer 6

1. It's not science; it doesn't follow the scientific method and is - for a large part - unfalsifiable.

2. It has no evidence; creationism is a faith based position (although proponents like to pretend there is evidence).  

3. You would be special pleading if you taught Christian creationism as opposed to hindi creationism.

I'd focus on the science aspect.  A literal genesis (ie, YEC) was decisively refuted over 100 years ago.  Further, the notion of a global flood is laughably ignorant - about as bad as the notion of phlogistan (sp?).

Further, even it's top proponents (ie, Behe) have testified - under oath - that it is essentially no more scientific then astrology (you know, the idea that the stars can effect our destiny - which is based off of a geocentric earth).

I could go on....

Edited to add - I'd ignore CCrew's advice simply because he doesn't seem to realize what the biological sciences have demonstrated.  Not only that, but he also *seems* confused (big bang is not the same thing as evolution - one is cosmology the other biology).  Further, he seems to not be aware of the 150 years of accumulated evidence that favors evolution (twin nested heirarchies anyone?).

He is probably of his opinion because he learned, from church, that evolution some how negates god (which is absurd since the majority of people who hold to evolution are theists) and therefore we have to be scared of learning and we have to limit our knowledge to that which does not scare us.  Never mind the fact that advances in molecular biology (due in no small part to the modern synethesis in the 1950's) have advanced our nutrition (GM foods), our health (innoculations), and we are gaining valuable insight for future discoveries (such as the cure for aids).

What has creationism ever gotten us?

Nothing.

How has creationism advanced science?

It doesn't.

What research is being done on creationism by scholars?

Looking through scientifically peer-reviewed journals reveal a goose egg in terms of creationist research.  The same is DEFINITELY not true for evolution.

Answer 7

To teach students to believe in God.

To maintain consistency with the church's teachings.

To teach students that god created man.

Answer 8

I disagree

Answer 9

Well first name three reasons why evolution shouldnt be taught in schools. Then that might help you understand that any theory of the creation of this world whether it be by God or by the Big Bang theory itself, etc. shouldnt be taught. The reason for that is is we all have our own beliefs and this subject can not be taught with no bias. Secondly, You can't teach either for the fact that everyone has their own beliefs and you might offend someone. Thirdly, when you start treading the waters of offending people by teaching their students creationism or evolution it stirs the hearts and emotions of the students and their parents. Causing a big problem for the administration. There is just no good way of going bout this subject for anyone.