metmom:
Show that teaching creation in addition to evolution would cause us to fall further behind.
tacticalogic:
Why?
Do you believe that you should be able to make claims that are pure speculation, provide absolutely no evidence to back them up, and expect that I should accept them until and unless I can provide evidence to the contrary?
Or is this another one of those “Well, the evos are doing it!” gambits to provide an opening to throw around another bucketful of perjoratives?
What do you mean why?
This is a typical example that illustrates liberals think they set the rules, get to ask things of creationists, that they can’t conceive of answering to when it comes to evolution themselves.
Along with the obligatory projections.
Sad.
Apparently the moderators aren’t keeping the “liberals” off of FreeRepublic to suit you.
Is it too much to ask someone to see the obvious connection?
The teaching of evolution has maintained a stranglehold on the public school system and has not, for the decades its been enforced, resulted in any improvement of science standards or the US ranking in science in the world.
There is not one shred of evidence that not teaching creation will improve the science education kids are receiving, nor that teaching it will harm it.
On the contrary, education as a whole was much better in this country for all the years that BIble reading and prayer and teaching creation were part of the education provided in public schools.
Today, private Christian schools and homeschools still outperform the public school and virtually everyone who is teaching for religious and values reasons teach BOTH creation and evolution. I have yet to meet any homeschooler that doesn’t. Anyone who uses ABeka teaches both and that is a large number of homeschoolers and private schools.
The evolution monopoly has NOT improved science education one iota. Especially when the education level of the teachers and the error prone school textbooks are thrown into the mix. There’s simply no reason to even begin to think that evolution is being taught correctly or being understood correctly at that level.
Those who think so are only fooling themselves.