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Originally Posted by punkworld
Your answer is indeed one suitable for ninth grade. It completely fails to take into account the findings of twentieth century philosophy of science, such as the rather important (at least for this discussion) refutation of the whole concept of verification by Karl Popper. It is a simple fact that laws of nature are, by logical definition, theories which can never be fully proven.
As for not teaching creationism, that is not a problem at all. Creationism is a non-scientific belief, not a scientific theory. As a scientific theory, it would be laughably weak, since it is essentially untestable and derived solely from mythology rather than any form of empiric data.
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Even the Vatican says that evolution is compatible with their beliefs.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,...w=wn_tophead_5
Associated Press
12:00 PM Nov. 04, 2005 PT
VATICAN CITY - A Vatican cardinal said Thursday the faithful should listen to what secular modern science has to offer, warning that religion risks turning into "fundamentalism" if it ignores scientific reason.
Cardinal Paul Poupard, who heads the Pontifical Council for Culture, made the comments at a news conference on a Vatican project to help end the "mutual prejudice" between religion and science that has long bedeviled the Roman Catholic Church and is part of the evolution debate in the United States.
Creationism, bluntly put, is a really, really bad theory, which is completely unscientific and extremely weak. Evolution, on the other hand, is a really, really strong theory. Suggesting that the two be taught alongside eachother shows a blatant ignorance of the very nature of science.