Creationism, since it is based on the Christian Bible, doesn’t have a place in the public school system. The public school system, which must educate children of parents who belong to many different faiths and none at all, must remain neutral.
Who taught you this?
Lemme guess...the public school system!
Keep hanging around FR kid. As if your very life depended on it!
Um...my first question to someone who claims that Christianity belongs in public school (and I speak as someone who homeschools her daughter) is: who's version of Christianity? If I were to agree to a full-fledged endorsement of Christian involvement in public school, that is a basic resolution that has to be made, because I can already hear the screams of protest that Baptists would have against a RCCer teaching their children the 'evil Papist cult'. And already in this thread I have seen one or two attempts by FReepers to sneer at the public pronouncement of a religious leader (the Roman Catholic Pope) - which tells me they arent really interested in freedom of religion...just unchallenged access to their own particular interpretation. I would have objections to the Bible Literalists teaching my (Anglican) Catholic child that the concept of transubstantiation is a Bad Thing and a Lie. My child would be subject to their inconsistency and confused version of faith - if she is to believe in a Literal interpretation of Genesis, why is she then not allowed to not believe in a Literal command from Christ Himself to "take, eat, for this is My Body, which will be given up for you"?????
Do you see the problem *I* have with agreeing with Christians who say they are battling the scientists in the public sector???
At least in science, the TRUE scientific method, any inconsistencies are weeded out or given the ability to be vetted. If my Catholic child were to end up under the tutelage of a Protestant, what chance would she have except to be told that she is a Non-Believer?...which is what *I* am told ALL THE TIME by Literalists for accepting the scientific methodology behind the study of evolution. Once they start doing that, I am very much NOT inclined to give them any credence.