Creationism is a pseudo-science.
It is rejected by the vast majority of the scientific community; in fact the only scientists who actually support it at all are those who have a personal interest in it supporting their own religious beliefs. Their opinions are biased. Creationism's evidence has failed to stand up to objective scientific scrutiny. Since Creationism doesn't qualify enough as a science (anymore than astrology or cryptozoology) to spend precious time teaching it in science class is stupid; there is no place for it.
Religious instruction has no place in public school. Public schools can't promote the teaching of one religion over others. The only place in a public school that Creationism would fit into the syllabus is a mythology class, yet Christians would protest it being taught in mythology alongside mythologies of other religions.
Creationists have basically taken an arrow that was shot 2000 years ago, and they are attempting to paint a bullseye around it where it fell.
Creationism is pseudo-science (I know that I have stated this previously but the fact that a pseudo-science is being taught in schools in 2014 angers me greatly). This isn't my opinion this is the official Supreme Court ruling in the 1987 case of Edwards vs Aguillard. We do not "balance" the teaching of science with nonsense. I know a lot of people believe in creationism, but that isn't an argument in its favour. The entire scientific community (that's the fancy way of saying people who know what the hell they are talking about) universally denouncing creationism as a religious ideology flatly contradicted by the scientific evidence. They really cannot argue against this.
Creationism is not true, so there really isn't any come back to that. There is no "OK its not true but..." no its nonsense so we don't teach it end of.
It's 2014 people, get yourselves together and get educated please.
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