Both should be taught-because it will be education not indoctrination. I'm asking because many people still think that only evolution can be taught legally-but this source says otherwise.
Creation can be taught in public schools
http://www.drdino.com/can-creation-be-taught-in-public-schools/
Old Timer Too
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Creation views are those of religion and therefore, cannot be taught as science in public schools.
What you believe is your right, and you have the right to teach your children what you want to teach them.
But the public schools have an obligation to the law and the law prohibits promoting religion in the United States. This is governed by the first and fourteenth amendments of the Constitution of the United States.
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You obviously didn't read those rulings very clearly (and neither did jail bird Kent Hovind). The Bible can be taught as part of a cultural study or historical study (in other words you can teach what certain cultures religious beliefs were in order to better understand their motives). An example would be that you teach about Jesus and how his followers became Christians to understand more clearly as to why the Romans became Christians and where this religion came from.
In a science class, children are taught things that have been well established within the scientific community. Since their is no empirical evidence, peer-reviewed articles, or working testable theory of creationism, it cannot be taught in the science classroom. Any attempts to teach creationism without it first going through the proper scientific methods is now a form of indoctrination of a religious idea. If creationism followed the scientific method and came up with a testable theory that could be verified by other scientists from around the world, then it could be taught in the science classroom (as well as many scientists winning noble prizes for the advancement in knowledge of biology).
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If they teach Creationism ( no technical support whatsover) they have to teach the ways of creation of all religions. Including what the Pastafarians have to say about it. Its very stupid to try and get creationism to be taught in public schools. To teach Creationism, is to teach there is a god. It goes against the Constitution. Evolution and creationism hardly have to do with eachother anyways. Creationism teaches how things were made in the beginning, like the Big Bang Theory. Evolution only states what happened after everything was already created. Point failed.
Ted K
A recent survey study conducted by Berkman and Plutzer (recently reviewed in Science 331:404-405, 2011 (28 Jan) has indicated that at present, about 28% of high school biology teachers teach to the National Science Education Standards, and thus, incorporate teaching of evolution; 13% are unabashed creationism advocates, and the remaining 59% are fence sitters--meaning they are advocates for neither idea, in large part, because they have had little training in and have little understanding of the area, and because they want to avoid controversy and potential trouble from parents and religious groups. They also make the point that this uncommitted 59%, because they are deliberately avoiding the subject, are doing more to hinder scientific literacy in the U.S. than the comparatively smaller group of committed creationist teachers. The very nature of scientific inquiry is being assaulted by this lack of commitment to discussion of legitimate scientific findings that are well established and not in question by mainstream scientific consensus, not just here in the U.S., but all over the world. This is a key point--it's really only here in the U.S. that science is under such potent political assault--make no mistake, the nature of this assault is not at all based on science, since the creationist position has absolutely no scientific foundation--it's all purely political, and the younger generation is going to suffer because of the willful ignorance of their elders. The rest of the world is leaving us in the dust. Pretty sad when one thinks of all the effort and toil and insights that have gotten us to where we are now, and pretty embarrassing, when one considers how on top of science this country used to be not that long ago. You can only coast on past glories for so long...won't be long now, and we may very well be reliving the demon-haunted world of 1000 years ago.
marsel_duchamp
Only evolution should be taught in science classes. It is factual and supported.
Asking for your version of creation myth to be treated the same as accepted science is ludicrous.
Teaching your version of a creation myth is indoctrination. Which one do you like? Navajo? Hopi? Pueblan? Zuni? Ancient Greek? Australian Aborigine? Hindu? New Guinea tribesmen? Inca? Maya? Aztec? Or were you just thinking of the Abrahamic one? That is indoctrination since these all these have the same amount of physical evidence, that being absolutely none.
Whats next? Flat earthers demanding equal time in geography?