Originally Posted by
Russel Baldridge
It's true that there are better places to have these discussions, places that will acutally acomplish something, but there's no reason to tip toe around something that is so important to so many of us if we can be civil about it.
As for your point #1; That's both true and misleading. Evolution is known to happen, it's obseravble in the bacterial world ( for example) as plainly as can be. Evolution, btw, is simply change in genetic information with each succeding generation, there's no necessity that the change be positive or even noticeable, the environment will sort out which changes were beneficial or not. (just a quick definition for clarity)
What's not proven is that a natural mechanism resulted in life as we know it, but this alone is not reason for teaching creation in science classes since the two opposing explanations fall under different catagories of thought. Creation is a philosophical endeavor, primarily, and Abiogenesis falls under scientific analysis. And since science education is about teaching theories that are scientifically valid, creation is ruled out of the curriculum.
There should be no issue at all, they each have their place.