Should public school be allowed to teach Creationism along with Evolution in a biology class?
I think they should be allowed to if they want too. I don’t see why a parent or teacher would want to limit a child’s education by only permitting teachers to teach one theory about how the world came to be as it is today. I went to a public high school and in my biology class we went over 3 different theories; evolution, creationism and the neutral theory of molecular evolution. I am personally glad that I got to learn about 3 different theories and got to look at things from different perspectives rather than just being taught one thing. I feel like I learned a lot by seeing different theories and learning about how scientist feel about the different theories.
I’m not in any way saying that religion should be taught in a science class, but rather that creationism can be mentioned without going too much into religion. It’s a really simple explanation: Literalist believe exactly what the scriptures say about a higher power creating the earth as it is. The land, day and night, animals and humans; they were all specifically created as they are today. End of explanation….I really don’t see why people get so upset about it’s not like a Sunday school lesson or a sermon.
I don’t think anyone’s ever going to agree on this issue and someone’s always going to be upset about what is or isn’t being taught and I think that’s kind of sad….people should be more open to learning about different perspectives. And this goes for both sides of the issue…
1 comment:
I absolutely love your blog! Your exact words of teaching all of them is what has been sitting on my tongue for a while. I really like what you said about showing all of them. I feel this way too I mean it literally is only one way of the thought of the creation of man, simply that, nothing more!
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