But WHY must evolution be taught? Who makes that determination? And using the same argument how about we teach creationism?
Schools should all be privatized. The government should stay out of it.
Here in Michigan it is part of the standardized state curriculum that all schools are expected to teach, and it is measured on the MEAP standardized test. It is ridiculous and one reason I am glad I no longer teach Biology in the public schools. Evolution is given an enormous amount of time in the high school curriculum, and local control has largely been taken away by the same leftover Sixties Leftist bureaucrats that took over everything else.
Biology teachers used to be able to focus on the nature that surrounds the typical rural student and go from there (reasoning from the concrete to the abstract). The standardized curriculum now typically goes the other way (starting with the abstract, the unproven, and the microscopic ). It is not a good way to get the attention of children.
Whose creationism? The Vedic story? The Mormon version? HP Lovecraft's?
Once you open the door, you will not be able to close it if, for example, a Muslim teacher brings his religious doctrine into your child's school.
The creationism belongs to christians. The schools are definitely not christian, they are public and those of all faiths attend. There are gaps and flaws in evolution and there are some findings that show species change. That can be called a form of evolution or adaption or even extinction.
Man was here long before those who read Genesis literally. It is my view that when mankind progressed in intellectual capability where he was able to be in touch with his spiritual sense...that God then touched him and revealed Himself. If Adam and Eve were the first and only humans...where did their son’s find marriage partners? Seriously, God did create but not in the literal interpretation of ‘creationists’. ‘
There are private and religious schools. Not everyone can afford them.
As to the ‘creationists’ using the date of 6000 years ago...for the creation of man, that is sheer ignorance or denial. Right there is a major flaw. I have personally studied, reviewed and encountered prehistoric human ‘remains’ dating well before 6000 years ago. The evolution theory is flawed in many major areas, however the existence of man kind as we know it from the earliest findings shows many adaptive differences and extinctions.
Read about the Cambrian explosion. Evolution cannot account for this. There is nothing in the Bible which states that Genesis must be a tenet of faith. Mankind does so much the bastardizing of the entire Bible and this does not serve God nor what He wishes for or from mankind.
Should we teach evolution in school? Sure! We can use this material: Inbred Science to explain to the kiddies what evolution is really all about. Likewise we can teach kids about communism by making them read The Black Book of Communism and a condensed version of The Gulag Archipelago. Those two courses would immediately grind out sharper students. A simple modification like that to the education system can save America.