re: #168 Alaska Martyrs’ Brigades

Creationism has come to denote not a mere idea of creation, but a set of arguments which pervert science and facts in order to fit them into a scriptural Procrustean bed. Since these arguments are false, they have no place not only in science class, but in any class (except maybe as fodder for a critical thinking class).

Science is about objective facts. The existence or non-existence of a Divine Being is beyond science, which is why it does not belong there.

And since religious instruction is also not really part of the public school curriculum, it really does not belong in a school at all. The only mention of religion in a public school should be in pointing out its role in the shaping of US & world history.

And even that is a tetchy subject that varies in interpretation from denomination to denomination.