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Originally Posted by Caltex
Evolution is a fact. How and why it occurs is a theory. We are as sure of evolution as we are of gravity.
To not teach it in schools is to appease religious fundamentalists who will deny anything that is in conflict with their mythology.
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Gravity the way we comprehend it is also just a theory and yet we teach it in schools. There is not a single scientific "law" that is beyond the stage of "theory". @TheHat: do you suggest we scrap all biology, physics and chemistry classes as well?
Atleast evolution has substantial evidence to back it up. What does creationism have? The old testament? A little tingle you feel when you look up to the sky? Seriously, teaching creationism would be illogical, so it is rightfully banned from public schools.
Teaching evolution is just spreading the knowledge humanity has managed to gather so far. And that's exactly what schools are supposed to do, because if you know the status quo you can build from there. If in some distant future it turns out that Darwins theory of evolution is indeed wrong, well good thing we thought our students about the theory, because otherwise they wouldn't even be able to proove it wrong.
Creationists suggest that we already know the answers to everything, which is with 100% certainty just wrong. It hinders the progress of humanity.