Why would atheists and others not allow the theory of Creation to be taught in schools alongside evolution?
Posted in xn--kfs74mzzid01b.com edit by jack on November 29th, 2008
If both "theories" be taught, at least children will get the option to choose for themselves which theory is wrong and which one is right.
Why is there such an outcry that the truth of creation be prevented from schools?
just SEVERAL hypotheses, there are no laws they follow, and no way of predicting future events based on them...No 2 even agree...
therefore they are NOT theories
evolution IS a theory, based around the concepts of survival of the fittest, and mutation...
Creationists are disqualified from making a positive case, because science by definition is based upon naturalism. The rules of science also disqualify any purely negative argumentation designed to dilute the persuasiveness of the theory of evolution. Creationism is thus out of court and out of the classroom-before any consideration of evidence. Put yourself in the place of a creationist who has been silenced by that logic, and you may feel like a criminal defendant who has just been told that the law does not recognize so absurd a concept as "innocence." - Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism First Things October 1990 by Phillip Johnson, Professor of Law at Berkeley
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It has an answer that's quite easy as well.
IF God created everything, that acknowledges God. What He tells us then, we'd better listen to and take advantage of. At some point then, we are accountable to Him.
If God DIDN'T create (thus, exist) the universe, then it allows men to be able to be their own God, or to choose one of their making. In any case, they can pretend that He doesn't exist, and that they aren't accountable to Him.
In short, by pretending there's no God, a person can act in ANY way s/he wishes with no moral standard.
if you wanted to bring that into schools, then every single religious view will have to be taught.
but since there isn't any evidence about any particular religios view/god/goddess being true, they don't teach it.
evolution has facts and evidence that it happened, and it still happening - THAT is why it's being taught in schools.
Same reason that we don't allow the theory that 2 + 2 = 5 to be taught, or the theory that television works by having little people inside the set who act out the shows, or the theory that combustion depends on a substance called phlogiston.
You don't get to choose what is true. Deal with it.
Its religious bull with a so-called scientific wrapper, with a title called Creationism.
If people want to learn about "Creation", they need to go to a church, a synagogue, a mosque, etc. and learn about intelligent creators. It is not a scientific explanation and bears little credible evidence.
it is at best a failed hypothesis.
evolution by contrast is a scientific theory meeting scientific criteria (testing and observation) to be taught in science class.
if we teach creationism in science class we should also study the anatomy of dragons, minotaurs, pegasi, hydras, krackens, and cyclops'.
we also need to devote equal time to pastafarianism and the FSM, we also need to teach children that spiderman and superman are real.
Most schools do teach creation theory. It's called 'Mythology class'.
We should educate our children with the best knowledge of our time.
Sure, children could be taught how Odin killed the First Giant Ymir and made the world out of his body, or how Biblegod spoke it all into existence, or how the Cosmic Egg hatched... in comparative religion class. Just keep it out of science classes.
Creationism should be taught in theology, not science.
When churches start teaching evolution as a possible theory, maybe schools will teach creationism as a possible theory. I imagine though, that such a thing will never happen.
It's not a scientific theory, as it does not meet the criteria of one. Namely that there should be predictions that it makes, which can be verified with external evidence. Evolution has this - a gradual change of species from one to another over time, verified by fossils.
If creationism made any prediction, it would be that species never evolved over time, and that the fossil record should support that. In this case, it's been disproved already.
There isn't any debate here. There is no 'truth' of creation. Creationism is false and has been proven to be false. Trying to push it into schools just shows intellectual dishonesty, stupidity and a fundamental lack of decency.
In what class do you propose to teach Creationism? It doesn't belong in a Science class, so I guess you'd have to teach it in Comparative Religious Studies or Mythology. As long as it is taught in one of those two classes then I wouldn't have a problem, but please don't try to pass Creationism off as "science" when it clearly isn't.
Creation is not science. It's not testable nor falsifiable (required for something to be considered "scientific"), and there is zero objectively verifiable evidence supporting it. Hence, if we teach Creation theory, we'd be every bit as justified in teaching about astrology, or The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
And if you can cough up a single piece of legitimate evidence for creation, we'd have no problem with it being taught in schools.
And I don't want my children to be taught both and then choose for themselves which theory is right and which is wrong. That's completely ridiculous and would be irresponsble of me as a parent. That's like saying to teach them that 2+2=4 AND 2+2=5 and then let them decide whichever answer they'd PREFER to believe. I want them to be taught facts.
It's not even science. We don't teach astrology in astronomy class, this is the same thing.
Do you favor teaching children that the dictionary says that things are to be spelled one way but that many other spellings exist and that they should be allowed to choose which spelling they like?
If churches were sincere about wanting children to learn all the options and make a choice they would teach all religions and all doctrines. The fact that they teach only their own proves that creationists who favor "the option to choose" are not sincere.
Why is there no outcry to teach astrology in schools? Teach it alongside astronomy, let the children decide!
I personally don't believe teachers should have to teach religion if their heart isn't in it either, it would seem hypocritical to the students.
This is one of those issues that doesn't need to be an issue. People get all excited about "where we came from". School is about learning so you can be a useful working unit when you leave the education system, and Evolution, apart from one "trait" has no relevance to the work place at all.
That one trait is the desire to find a natural explanation to observed phenomena. Other than that, as I said before, it has no relevance to the work place. Indeed, one could even go further and say that science would be better off without Evolution because it teaches people the wrong habits when it comes to doing scientific research. By that I mean it teaches people that you should model your data so you get data that fits your theory, rather than adjusting your theory to fit the data.
This is also why Creation is actually scientifically better, because it teaches people to search for the truth, which requires they do their research to find a plausible answer to phenomena, not to justify their preconceived theories.
Besides WHOSE creation myth should eb given equal time? Is Odin and the sky cow a theory? why not if Yahweh and his firmament and flat earth are?
