Hope the everyone from yahoo will join up over here soon. It's been several days since I posted anything, and I am sure this has already been said, but just for grins, lets say it again.
There is NO anti-creationism in public school science classrooms. IMO, high school science classrooms are no place to present bad science, even as a demonstration that some people think it happened a certain way. The average student in a high school/junior high biology class doesn't have the background to make the distinction between good and bad science. Additionally, the teachers don't have the time to waste teaching a "theory" that has no supporting evidence and is based on a book whose credentials are questionable when looked at objectively.
This begs the question, is there a place to teach creationism? I say possibly. I personally would like to have taken a class either on creationism or pseudoscience in general in COLLEGE, when I was starting to develop the intellectual fortitude to really look at the issues and in a format where the teacher had time to delve deeper into them.
However, in a public school classroom, it has no place. As I said, aside from the obvious violation of the establishment clause since it is state sanctioning of a religious doctrine, teachers don't have the time to go into it deep enough for the students to get a clear understanding of all the issues involved and the students don't have enough background knowledge to preclude a lengthy lead-in discussion.
Hope to see everyone on here soon.
Corey
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