In many studies, high school biology teachers do not go in depth of the evolution lesson; these teachers feel that it is not their place to talk about religious views with their students. The United States has laws against teaching religion, and teaching religious views is uncomfortable for teachers and students who do not follow views of a church. Creationism should not be taught in public school, as it involves many religious outlooks.
Creationism is the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed (“Creationism”). Within a religious school corporation, teaching creationism lessons is allowed and even expected (Pennock 3). Within public …show more content…
The first legal battle of evolution and creation was in 1925 with the Butler Act in Tennessee (Pennock 6) “Laws dictating the content of the science curriculum in this regard have been in existence from 1922 to the present” (Zimmerman 2). Creationism is a way to turn down the evolutionary theory and teach the beginnings of the earth as created from nothing (Pennock 7). Creationism is not a one-sided controversy, and to truly teach what is right, schools must take each division of this controversy and decide where to cut the line on these lessons. One movement of creationism being used is The Raelian Movement, where they do not believe in a supernatural creator, but an extraterrestrial figure “genetically engineered” earth (Pennock 10). All teaching other than the evolutionary theory should be taught as “alternative theories” to keep the controversy out of the public school classroom (Pennock 10). The many theories of creationism should be allowed in a religions class, but in the high school science curriculum it must be taught as evolutionary theory to please those of different religions and the government. Creationists, people following the views of creationism, believe that their view needs to replace or be a part of the curriculum, and that is where it messes with the separation of church …show more content…
Schools leaving out information that is not in the curriculum, is not unfair (Pennock 18). These parents believe that the teachers should be “retrained correctly” in order for them to teach creation-science (Edwords). Trying to fit all different aspects of religion is impractical, and would cause build up of disagreement between opposing religious students (Edwords 7). “Neither “creation-science” nor “intelligent-design” … is an actual or viable competitor in the scientific field, and it would be irresponsible and intellectually dishonest to teach them as though they were (Pennock 19).” Scientist do not focus on or even study other theories of evolution as the evidence behind them has been different from previous contenders (Pennock 19). Not that teaching and learning of these other theories would not be interesting, they should be learned on a larger scale than of what secondary school textbooks can teach (Pennock
Creationism is the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed (“Creationism”). Within a religious school corporation, teaching creationism lessons is allowed and even expected (Pennock 3). Within public …show more content…
The first legal battle of evolution and creation was in 1925 with the Butler Act in Tennessee (Pennock 6) “Laws dictating the content of the science curriculum in this regard have been in existence from 1922 to the present” (Zimmerman 2). Creationism is a way to turn down the evolutionary theory and teach the beginnings of the earth as created from nothing (Pennock 7). Creationism is not a one-sided controversy, and to truly teach what is right, schools must take each division of this controversy and decide where to cut the line on these lessons. One movement of creationism being used is The Raelian Movement, where they do not believe in a supernatural creator, but an extraterrestrial figure “genetically engineered” earth (Pennock 10). All teaching other than the evolutionary theory should be taught as “alternative theories” to keep the controversy out of the public school classroom (Pennock 10). The many theories of creationism should be allowed in a religions class, but in the high school science curriculum it must be taught as evolutionary theory to please those of different religions and the government. Creationists, people following the views of creationism, believe that their view needs to replace or be a part of the curriculum, and that is where it messes with the separation of church …show more content…
Schools leaving out information that is not in the curriculum, is not unfair (Pennock 18). These parents believe that the teachers should be “retrained correctly” in order for them to teach creation-science (Edwords). Trying to fit all different aspects of religion is impractical, and would cause build up of disagreement between opposing religious students (Edwords 7). “Neither “creation-science” nor “intelligent-design” … is an actual or viable competitor in the scientific field, and it would be irresponsible and intellectually dishonest to teach them as though they were (Pennock 19).” Scientist do not focus on or even study other theories of evolution as the evidence behind them has been different from previous contenders (Pennock 19). Not that teaching and learning of these other theories would not be interesting, they should be learned on a larger scale than of what secondary school textbooks can teach (Pennock