because it is still religion, and when people say they are going to 'allow debate and discussion' on it, they usually mean 'balanced discussion' of which there is none. Evolution isn't up for debate. And religion doesn't belong in the classroom. And little cracks like 'allowing debate' lead to creationist teachers spending all their time saying why 'evolution just doesn't make sense.' It's not just that it 'doesn't have to be in the curriculum' - it is illegal to teach it because it is religion, period.
"It's OK to let kids know that there are theories out there," she said in the interview. "They gain information just by being in a discussion."
And the legal cases that have gone through have shown this is clearly not okay. In the science classroom you have to tell the kids to take it out to the playground. It's just too easy for it to turn into teaching religion in the classroom (since creationism IS part of religion). At the college level you can do it, which is good ,because one of the easiest ways to show people why it doesn't make sense is to compare it. But public K-12 school classrooms are a no-go.
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"It's OK to let kids know that there are theories out there," she said in the interview. "They gain information just by being in a discussion."
And the legal cases that have gone through have shown this is clearly not okay. In the science classroom you have to tell the kids to take it out to the playground. It's just too easy for it to turn into teaching religion in the classroom (since creationism IS part of religion). At the college level you can do it, which is good ,because one of the easiest ways to show people why it doesn't make sense is to compare it. But public K-12 school classrooms are a no-go.
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