Creationism is the creation story of one particular branch of the protestant wing of the Christian religion. If you teach it in public schools, then the government is endorsing a particular religion. That is a direct violation of the separation clause.
Moreover which creation story do you want taugh. The Sumerian creation, which involves the diety having sex with himself (rather impressive sort of story), various gods, goddesses, daughters and sons, all in very lurid detail? Basically anything that moved (or didn't move) was fair game as far as he was concerned. How about the Aztec, Hindu or Hellenic Greek creation mythos. By chosing one mythos and teaching it in science classes, you are endorsing a religion. As for ID, by postulating a creator, then that pushes the theory, I call it such only in its most venacular sense, over to a religious belief, again violating the first amendment. As for being a scientific theory, that's been gone over multiple times. It simply is not. If you want your kid to learn creation myths as scientific theory, you can teach that to your own kids, why should I have to pay for another's religious beliefs? On 8/3/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > It's a fine line. Is teaching creationism teaching religion? Is > > teaching ID teaching religion? If you add, "this is what they believe" > > before explaining it, does that mean your teaching about it? > > > > ID is on no higher ground than any other un-scientific theory. It > would be appropriate to present its precepts within a class about all > religions, but nowhere else. > > That is, if you had a class that taught the major religions: Judism, > Christianity, Islam, Buddism, Hiduism, etc - ID may deserve a half > hour or so to compare to all of the other creation stories. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:167829 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
