Creationism should not be taught in schools

What I wrote got erased so I just have this. It should be enough though.Green text is direct quotations from pro Pro writes: 'More Americans believe in intelligent design than evolution. ' On further inspection of the source I find this claim to be false. Although not a majority, though these statistics do point to a staggering proportion of Americans, 46% who hold 'that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. I chose my words very carefully; I did not say “the majority”. What I said was: “More Americans believe in intelligent design than evolution”. “Most Americans are not scientists” My point is not that since so many Americans believe it, it must be true. The point I am making is that what schools teach should take into account the public / tax payers / citizen’s opinion. We are a democracy. If there are more Americans who support teaching I.T. / not teaching evolution, that must be taken into account in some way. They should not be ignored. My opponent brings up separation of church & state. I agree. But it works both ways. The government cannot force people to learn things that contradict their religious beliefs. (Unless there is a very compelling reason such as harm to other citizens.) Therefor, I believe that schools should be able to teach both. There are a # of ways of doing this; everyone learns both, School get to choose, 2 parallel classes & parents get to choose etc. But to say everyone must learn Darwinian evolution, & no school may even supplement it with alternatives / criticism is to discriminate against some religious beliefs. A compromise should be worked out to allow schools the option of not discriminating against these religious beliefs.” “'A 2009 poll by Pew Research Center 13% of scientists says evolution is not due to natural processes, such as natural selection.’ This first statement is seemingly false. Looking at the source by the Pew Research Centre, I found that the actual fact was that 'Nearly all scientists (97%) say humans and other living things have evolved over time'” Again I choose my words very carefully, there is no contradiction between what I said, & what pro said, they are simply different parts of the same study. (I do appreciate pro writing “This first statement is seemingly false” giving me the benefit of the doubt instead of assuming that it was false. This makes it a true pleasure to debate with him, & I think he deserves the point for conduct). The reason they are not contradictory is this: I wrote: “13% of scientists say evolution is not due to natural processes, such as natural selection. “ Pro wrote: 97% of scientists say humans and other living things have evolved over time. These are both from the same study. All it means is that 3% reject any sort of evolution over time, (& 97% accept it). Another 10% believe in evolution, but believe that it is not due to “natural processes, such as natural selection”. “ Evidence for Evolution The evidence for evolution has primarily come from four sources: 1. The fossil record of change in earlier species.” As stated earlier, the fossil record is one of the biggest problems for evolution, and has been so ever since its inception. Darwin recognized the problem but attributed it to the incomplete fossil record. Now the fossil record is complete and there are still gaps. This problem has lead scientists to say ridiculous things like punctuated equilibrium, which is taught in biology classes makes no sense is a disgrace to science. Science really should say “we don’t know” instead of stupidity like punctuated equilibrium. Punctuated equilibrium makes even less sense than I.T. All the evidence for evolution does not show evolution to be correct. Rather they are details which fit with evolution. I.T. can also be correct. Pro seems to have misunderstood my final section entitled “Scientific Problems with the evidence for evolution:” He understood it to be evidence against evolution, & thus had a # of problems with what was written.All evidence was contained in the link.