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Surprise. I don't believe in a 5000 year old Earth either.

Given the diverse nature of American students, it is unreasonable to teach one belief system to the exclusion of all others, in gov't run schools. It is equally unreasonalbe to teach multiple belief systems re. creation & expect students to be anything other than confused.

“nobody is talking about having Creation class...”. It was certainly what O'Donnell & Coons were talking about.

As for way back when: This country was overwhelmingly Christian, school was not a function of gov’t, & there was no legal requirement for attendance. Our demographics are very different from 200+ years ago.

Forcing a Jewish child to memorize & be tested on the muslim version of creation in Dearborn, MI is just plain wrong, even if that is what the locals there prefer. That is indoctrination, not education.

My concern is the teaching of subjects that are based on belief & faith, rather than fact, by an instructor who may have neither the belief nor faith. My concern is also that children will be force to learn beliefs that are completely opposed to those of the parents & family.

This should be the concern every Freeper and Conservative. Anything that gets too deeply into religious issues and beliefs needs to be taught by parents and by religious organizations approved by the parents, such as a Sunday School. That includes Creation and it includes quite a few other things.

Unfortunately we have a lot of parents who shirk their responsibility and would rather the government or schools raise their kids. They don't have a problem with the government getting mixed up with religion because they've never spent 30 seconds thinking about it or because they hold no serious religious beliefs.

The day we start thinking it's okay for the government to get heavily involved with religion is the day we're finished and are nothing more than a Christian version of Islamic countries.