The creation account along with the Bible, was taught in classrooms across this country for centuries with no deleterious effect on either education, the practice of science, or the development of technology for the decades it was taught until it was kicked out of the public schools by litigation.
Please provide me with any evidence you can find that teaching creation and ID along with evolution is going to harm science education at all.
We can look back today and know that it’s not going to work the way they and why, but to equate alchemy with creation is intellectually dishonest. There’s nothing in the Bible that would lead anyone to believe that, so there’s no way to blame the Bible for that one. FWIW, alchemy was the science of the day. If anyone is responsible for that, it was the scientists of that day.
What you also ignore in your scorn of alchemy and the practice of it, is that scientists learned a lot about chemistry through the study of alchemy. They were not right about their presumptions, and THAT we know now, but it did provide the motivation to explore and experiment.
I did not say that creation/i.d. should not be taught in school. I stated the fact that creation/i.d. is not science, and therefore should not be taught in a science class.
It would harm the science education in the same way that including Astrology in the science curriculum, it would take away valuable class time to needed to teach real science to teach religion which is in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States of America as determined by a Republican judge appointed by President Bush.
However Richard Dawkins does agree with you, “By all means let creation science be taught in schools. It should take all of about 10 minuets to teach it and then children can be allowed to make up their own minds in the face of the evidence. For children who study hard and keep an open mind it seems to me utterly inconceivable that they could conclude anything other than that evolution is true “
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6230199/Articles-of-Richard-Dawkins