http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2013/01/creationism-commotion-five-states-have-anti-evolution-bills-in-play/
Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Doesn't my federally provided public education follow this rule? I'm fairly sure it does. So why then, are people still attempting to ram down bills that attempt to do the exact opposite?
I'll let Bill Nye answer some of it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/bill-nye-creationism-science_n_1908926.html
Creationism is religious in nature. It is not science. Of this, one cannot deny. You can view evolution whichever way you want and you can choose to believe in creationism or not, but you cannot claim it to be secular and fit for public schooling. That is what baffles me. I have yet to see a single sane person claim creationism to be not religious in nature. If anything, most of it's proponents are often seen quoting verses from the Bible in its defense.
Yet state legislatures are attempting to rephrase it as "biological intelligent design," and other poor rephrasings in order to force them into the public school systems. If we were to teach creationism as a science, we would have to give other theories of creation equal treatment. Possibly we can possibly teach the ancient Greek theory that all of existence came into being from Chaos. Teaching creationism, as said by Bill Nye can only hurt American science. It isn't science. So why then, should it receive the exact same treatment as a science?
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