Should "Creationism" be taught in public schools?

It wouldn't hurt to mention that people who misinterpret the Bible often profess it to be the case, but then explain that scientists and intelligent people know otherwise.

Creationism is not a theory. In the scientific method there is a process of review and publication that a scientific hypothesis must go through to be accepted as a theory. Creationism has not. Creationism make a statment of the universe "God created this universe" asnd use the observation that everything they see is intelligently designed as the observation to make the hypothesis that god created the world. Since christianity and the church grew so powerful over the years that many other religions were removed their creationist theory still prevailed until the dark ages and the renaissance. During the enlightenment and the modern period there was a surge of scientific knowledge and now we now know that Creationism is not true. The world is not 6,000-10,000 years old and nealy all if not all sciences would not accept such claims. The "order of creation" is also wrong as a day and night cannot exist when the sun was crated on the 4th day. Plants could not have existed before without the sun and the earth which was on the 1st day would not have been able to exist before the sun and the stars which are much older than the earth. Creationism has no scientific baking and wrongfully use "scientific data" to support their claims when in reality they are misusing science and using its inventions incorrectly to get the support they want from people who choose to be ignorant. Evolution is a fact. when people talk about the theory of evolution they are actually talking about natural selection. Natural selection is the mechanism Darwin proposed for how evolution worked. Evolution on the other hand has been observed and it is a fact. The mechanisms for how evolution work are still being studied for scientist to know how evolution works with complete detail. That is why in biological science, evolution is taught to have children learn evolution so that some would be interested in biological science and pursue it to become a scientist that studies evolution and maybe one day be the person that figures out how evolution works.

Taught? No. Doing so would be a direct violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Because creationism (as generally defined) is an explicitly religious doctrine.

Taught about? Absolutely.

In history or social studies classes, creationism would be a valid subject to cover because it is a part of what important figures in those areas used to inform their actions and statements. In science classes, I believe it is important to include creationism when examining the history of scientific thought. Partly because, like in those other subjects, it informed the ideas of people important in the area. And partly to demonstrate why it is no longer relevant to scientific thought.

You can't explain why science no longer accepts faulty ideas without explaining what those ideas were. And why science has moved beyond them.

It's the same reason that "history of science" courses include discussion of alchemy, phlogiston, luminiferous ether, geocentrism, and many other ideas now rejected by science. Because you can't know how we got where we are without learning where we used to be.

I say no and that i'm a fundamentalist. rather we live in a rustic and characteristic a central authority the place faith isn't pushed down the throat of the prevalent public. i does no longer desire to deliver my new child to a school that taught him issues in accordance with a faith i do no longer agree so think of how different mum and dad would sense

It depends on what you mean by "creationism." If you mean the 6 literal days according to the Bible then no because it would put one religion above another. If, however, you mean design, I say yes since nearly every scientist says the universe has an appearance of design (Dawkins for one)

Since creationism and evolution get hung up on each other I would say 'no' to teaching either one. I would rather have children taught proven scientific facts in a wide variety of science (and even engineering) fields than to engage them in a theosophical battle in a science class. Let's face it: most of our children exit high school ill prepared in understanding even the most basic scientific facts. So let's drop the wasted time spent on this debate, move on, and teach what is known.

As long as evolution is taught in schools creationism should be taught.

If you don't want to teach kids creationism don't teach evolution.

They're both as valid or faulty as each other.

No!

The origin of the universe, life etc are one time events, not observable because they happened in the past, not reproducible because the are one time events and therefore rightly should be classified as speculation. This makes the question of origins a philosophical question not a scientific question and so origins have no place in science classes, or the public school system.

Yes I tell you why? It compares how science works with how faith works. Don't teach creation as a science teach it as a philophosphy. Some people have strong feelings about our orgins

Ex evoultionist I believe in the power of God and creationism.

No. Creationism is a religious ideology and the separation of church and state demands that it be kept out of school. In addition, there is nothing scientific about creationism as it has not followed the scientific method or successfully undergone peer-review, and is not considered valid among the academy of sciences.

It should be an option.

We've all had various, ever changing, theories forced on us in public schools from kindergarten through university. .. that you MUST take, and PASS to move forward to the next grade.... so it would be fair if there was an option to take "Creationism" as well.