Originally Posted by Libertine

"Teach the controversy" is the slogan of several organizations promoting creationism. The idea is to promote the thought that creationism is an equal alternative to evolution, that in the scientific community, there actually is a controversy.

But there isn't. There are virtually no scientists working in relevant fields who support creationism or intelligent design.

Teaching creationism in biology class creates the false impression that it's a scientifically relevant theory. It means spending inordinate amounts of time on something that has long passed the stage of being credible as a scientific theory.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with teaching it in history class, along with the flat earth theory, phlogiston and geocentrism. But that's not what the creationists want. They want it to be taught as a valid alternative to evolution - which it isn't.