The real issue is not between creationism or evolution; it is about school choice.
If parents want to have their children taught one or the other as science, they should have that option and then see how the marketplace will value such different education standards.
Those of us who disparage creationism being taught as science should also bear in mind that there are forms of secular humanism [e.g marxist social/economic theory] — that are no less based upon faith — that are foisted upon many more children w/o parental review.
Those of us who don’t want creationism or humanism taught to our children should have that option. A government monopoly cannot possibly create a vanilla curriculum that will satisfy everyone.
School choice is the solution, not compromise.
riiiiiiight. I can hear lawsuits percolating about "discrimination" already because little Johnny was taught young earth philosophy as science and hence he is a new charter of victim..
Wrong. The issue here is whether or not the teacher injured the students in his care, and whether or not he was teaching the curriculum required.
I agree with you on the “School Choice” matter.
Puplic schools on the first day of a child’s enrollment should have the parents fill out a card with two choices.
1. Teach my child in the sciences as they are accepted by the vast majority of scientists in the fields of chemistry, biology and geology, recognizing and accepting the theories of gravity and evolution.
2. Teach my child young earth creationism as disregard widely accepted scientific theories of the 16th - 21st centuries. Place special emphasis on the idea that man and dinosaur walked on earth at the same time.