Quote (JEB90 @ Apr 11 2012 02:10pm)
Everything is wrong with trying to give religion equal footing with science in a science class. It's not like they want to encourage debate on various theories of evolution or mechanisms of climate change. I might also note they didn't mandate teaching alternative economic theories like Marxism.
And just because people never seem to get it:
“Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.”
--Stephen Jay Gould
I think creationism should be part of social studies if taught, not part of science class.
Science class should only be for things testable with the scientific method and observable with empirical evidence.
But don't think the two are mutually exclusive either. Plenty of people believe in both.
I would like it if schools taught more about religion, as well as politics, economics, criminal justice, education, the concept of family and how it differs through the years and by culture....AKA teach sociology in High School.
And for the record I don't personally believe in creationism or divinity, but most of the world does.