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Originally posted by Joe Citizen
Science classrooms are a place for science education.
Religion has no place in a science classroom because it has no scientific basis.
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I think that to study evolution, it would help to learn about what people believed before Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The Origin of Species was only published 145 years ago, so giving students a background into people's ideas before then is part of a rounded education in my opinion.
We shouldn't hide the concept of creationism from people anymore than we should hide the concept of bloodletting or the belief that the earth is flat or that the sun revolves around the earth. As silly as those concepts sound today, it benefits us to know that this is what people used to think, and it benefits us to understand why they thought the way they did.
I don't think we should teach creationism as fact, but I do think people should be aware that creationism is what some people believe and give them some background on why they believe it.