When the Louisiana legislature was debating teaching creationism, I went to a school book store and bought several proposed textbooks which treated creationism as a "science." It was pretty silly, one even had Noah's flood being taught as "science." Whether or not you believe in creation, whether or not you believe in evolution, or whether you believe in both, as I do, there is simply no scientific support in the geological record to support creation "scientifically." You can believe in creation, but there's no physical evidence that it happened 4,000 years ago, or ever. Astronomy and geology demonstrate that the earth, and the universe, are billions of years old. Life first appeared on earth billions of years ago. There is evidence that it evolved, but you don't have to believe it. But anyone who says that the universe isn't billions of years old, or that life didn't appear on earth billions of years ago, doesn't have science on his/her side.
If the children are taught that the universe is billions of years old, and that the earth is billions of years old, and that life on earth began billions of years ago, they've been taught contrary to "creation science" right there. |
