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Essay / Creationism in Public School Science Classes - 932
Should History Teachers Teach That the Holocaust Happened and Didn't Happen? If not, why should science teachers teach that life has evolved over billions of years and was created as it is today just six years ago? a thousand years? Creationism should not be taught in science classes because it has no supporting evidence, is not equivalent to evolution, and religious myths cannot be taught in classrooms. public schools of an officially non-religious nation. has provided substantial criticism of "intelligent design", demonstrating significant conceptual flaws in its formulation, a lack of credible scientific evidence, and misrepresentations of scientific fact. » (AAAS). This statement says that creationism has no evidence to support its claims, and to say that it is science is a disgrace to the scientific method. This statement was released by the world's largest scientific organization. Reasonably, for something to be taught in science class, it must be based on sufficient scientific evidence and must be accepted by the scientific community as a whole. Evolution meets these criteria. This is an obvious fact in science, just like every other fact in biology, physics, chemistry, etc. There is overwhelming evidence and it cannot be reasonably disputed. science confirms the Genesis account of Creation and that the evolution of molecules toward man is a blind belief that flies in the face of much scientific evidence..." (Answers in Genesis). Ken Ham, the president of AiG-US, says that evolution is "blind faith", meaning it has no proof, and that creationism is proven by "real science......at middle of paper ......ve what they want, learn what they want themselves, but they have no right to teach the children of the public a completely false explanation about the origins and the continuation of life and the universe. Works Cited “AAAS Board of Directors Resolution on Intelligent Design Theory. public schools?!." & Sons, 2004. 148. Print. "Open letter to the Kansas school board." Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, nd Web, November 7, 2010. "Theory" Random House, Inc, 2010. Internet..