Should creationism be taught in schools? (Evolution vs Creation)

"i do not believe that creationism is a viable model for our existance to be taught as a fact. I believe the scientific theory of evolution is currently the only logical explanation for our existance today and creationism should not be taught in schools. My opponent will try to disprove this that creationism can be a viable explanation for our existance and must present his/her arguments in the first round."before we begin debate, we must first define two of the main key words with definitions that are general well accepted.definitions: Evolution -Biology. change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.(dictionary.com)'creationism-the doctrine that matter and all things were created, substantially as they now exist, by an omnipotent Creator, and not gradually evolved or developed.(dictionary.com)explanation-a statement or account that makes something clearviable- capable of workingcontention one is evolutionEvolution in its nature is only a theory designed to explain the change of species and population through millenia of growth and change. A THEORY IS NOT FACT, ONLY AN EXPLANATION FOR OBSERVATIONS. Evolution can only describe how life has created and how we came to existence through preexisting organisms. Evolution in itself cannot explain how the universe came to be where creationism can. Evolution cannot explain how the earth was formed, that requires other forms of science and explanation. Evolution is based upon the assumption that life A. prexisted and B. the earth was already formed before it. Evolution cannot explain how the world came to be, only how preexisting life changed into humans, unlike creationism.contention two is education Education is when someone or something gives you instruction and/or information about certain things. It's necessary for our education system to teach our children. Giving them ideas such as creationism as well as the theory of evolution facilitates thought rather than teaching them one thing and one thing only. Without questioning current ideology etc, we would no longer have modern philosophy or important movements like feminism. Even though creationism may be disproved by your arguments, it should be taught at schools nonetheless. It is important and necessary for our education system to facilitate intellectual debate and thought so that generations to come can continue to have debates such as these. Giving them one explanation for all the occurences of nature etc. is not only illogical, it is detrimental to creative thought and/or intellectual thought. One explanation to our existence cannot encompass thousands of years of human curiousity that has spurned such thought only to be undermined by a relatively new science, which is evolutionary biology. That being said, creationism should not be taught as a science based study but possibly incorporated into courses such as psychology since it is an belief and based upon faith aside from science.contention three is Debate in itselfCreationism is a faith based belief to explain our creation and cannot be taught as fact. creationism is not a science and should not be treated like one. Trying to argue that evolution is right and that creationism is a false dichotomy. One is the theory of how organisms change into their current form, the other is an belief that there is a divine being(God in most instances) that has created everything. They do conflict, but it is very had to argue between these two as there are huge descrepencies that i have mentioned."My opponent will try to disprove this that creationism can be a viable explanation for our existance and must present his/her arguments in the first round."*grammatical error, i believe i'm trying to prove that creationism is a viable explanation, but anyways."* I should not have to prove that Creationism is right and that evolution is wrong. "A viable explanation" is not universal since an explanation is merely a statement that makes something clear, both creationism and evolution can make our existence clear to many different sorts of people, therefore one explanation is illogical. Since i must present a case that creationism is a "viable explanation," then i will state that God created everything. That is a statement that makes something clear to someone(how we came about) and is viable since it is feasible for a mind to believe as millions have previously accepted this belief.