The Importance Of Creationism In Public Schools

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Evolution is the theory of modern biology, concerning all biological areas, this theory has supported evidence and many scientists believe it to be truth. Creationist beliefs are not a scientific alternate interpretation to evolution. This is the reason why creationism should not become part of public school curriculums, first for the fact that it is illegal, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from establishing religion. Requiring that public schools are not to give superior benefits to any religion. Because creationism is a biased on a superior religious view, it is not to be given special privileges by any government body, including public schools. If public schools choose to adopt creationism in to their …show more content…
This way it allows for students & parents to choose whether or not their child is being taught a religion they believe in. The political impact of this, is that if schools start to adopt the teaching of creationism, certain public school will lose number of students attending thus loss of state funding. Since the 21st century when the satirical book, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson that personifies the main beliefs of the parody religion of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, modern society leans away from religion. Atheist and agnosticism has become more common in society today. To ignore these students, and families, the schools are simply stating that, their beliefs are not important to the school and that the religion being taught is far more important than the subject of evolution. If these school lose funding, where is the money going? Will they cut other programs to keep religion? How will these schools prove that teaching religion will what increase the level of intelligence in student and the success rate? Eventually the state will realize there will be a decreasing in the number of student going to college for science, that could hurt Science based universities that are state funded. Since universities contribute to the job growth and economy and this steadily decrease; religion will start to become less and less

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