Evolution

I believe that Creationism should be taught in public schools alongside Evolution. Both of these are theories, and teaching both would give students an open mind to more than just one side of the story. Not everyone believes in the Theory of Evolution, therefore it should not be the only thing taught in the classrooms where our children attend class. That is giving children only a one sided opinion to what some people think actually happened. There are many theories out there in the world, so why is that schools see fit to only teach one of those and hold it to be an almost truth?"Believe it or not, the California Department of Education has made the academic case that exposing students to creationists' ideas is legitimate for public schools to do. The California Science Framework states: "Discussions of divine creation, ultimate purposes, or ultimate causes (the why) are appropriate to the history-social science and English-language arts curricula." This means that the topic of creation can be taught in two classes in California and the case can be made for its academic legitimacy in other states as well. In a social studies class, the Creation story itself could be read and discussed when learning about ancient civilizatiNow that we have allowed evolution to be taught in the classroom people are debating over which theories of evolution should be taught. 578 (1987), and 2) banned the teaching of evolution, Epperson v. " (2) Isn't what is happening now bigotry? The schools are only teaching evolution, so that is only choosing to tell one side of the story. While such an approach should be constitutional, it cannot be mandated. That is another academic reason to teach "creation science. Darwin believed that the strongest beings of a pack would come out on top and the weakest would die, but that is not what is stated by Dr. America's founding fathers believed that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. In both...