Creationism In Public Schools

Fundamentalist Creationists do not stop at just asking for Creationism to be taught in public schools, as mentioned before, sometimes they turn to extremes. First, it is beneficial to understand the basis on which Creationists attempt to discredit science. One of the most common misconceptions from Creationism is that it’s a suitable scientific alternative to the evolutionary theory. This is simply not true, as evident from the aforementioned infographic. Using this as the foundation for their argument, Creationists attempt to persuade not only school boards, but also the parents of children in school. Their constant harrowing and distaste for the evolutionary has given it a bad wrap in mainstream media, making it out to be a science who’s

citizens on the subject during the year 2000. From the conducted survey, they found that 83% of Americans would rather have evolution taught in public schools over Creationism (Barlow). Additionally, the People for the American Way Foundation reported a 95% confidence rate, which means that the numbers in their study are quite credible. Radical Creationists have yet to challenge these statistics. The trouble of teaching of Creationism in public schools rests not only in it being unscientific, but also in the fact that it can be considered

One of these views that they argue is the fact that evolution is taught in schools, so Creationism should be too. The issue that arrives with this argument is that Creationism isn’t just opposed to the evolutionary theory; in fact, Creationists want a complete replacement of it with their beliefs. Evolutionary science is a branch of Biology, an actual science. While Creationists seek to replace this science, they forget that fact that it is indeed a science, while Creationism can be considered a religious philosophy. There is no credible reason that a public school system should replace a science, backed by evidence, with a religious philosophy on which it’s foundation is purely faith. Clarence Darrow, a lawyer, and the leader of the American Civil Liberties Union sums it up pretty well, by stating:

“If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools. […] At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. […] Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. […] After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flaming banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century”