Which is the truth, creationism or evolution? In the earlier periods of education, religion was treated as factual truth. As this system developed, the idea of creationism was removed from school. This idea that all living things were created by a divine being should not be taught in school because religion is based solely on belief and the theory of evolution has been proven by 150 years of evidence. Teaching the creationist ideology also goes against the ideas of America and it completely violates the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Creationism is almost interchangeable with religion and you will be hard-pressed to find any factual evidence of religious ideas. Most “proof” you will find is just loose generalizations or based on a fictional book created over a …show more content…
One of the leading refutes against evolution is that how could life today be so complex without someone who carefully designed it. According to Nathan Schneider, “William Paley compared the complexity of natural flora and fauna to finding a fully functional mechanical watch lying on the beach. Surely, he argued, we are forced to deduce that the watch is so complicated that it must have been made by some intelligent designer — and the same could be said of living things.” This is an ill-defined inference by someone who is trying to prove a point. Obviously, religions are based on belief. For example, Christianity is based on the belief that the bible is the one true word of God. The problem with this belief is that the bible is so similar to stories that were created hundreds of years earlier. As stated in the article The Bible is Fiction: A Collection of Evidence, “The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous