Debate: If evolution is taught in schools shouldn't creationism?
Side: Not on my watch!

If you watch the video "Icons of Evolution" you will see that Evolution is no longer the popular choice among scientists. A lie. Bohemian covered the actual statistics already.Furthermore, of less importance the popularity of an idea is the reasons upon which the acceptance of it are based. Popular ideas have been wrong before, so you cannot draw a conclusion upon that; you must find out why people accept something.http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CA/CA111.html Topics like Irreducible complexity, the Cambrian explosion and Schaeffer's embryo drawings......have either already been falsified or explained. http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design2/article.html http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CC/CC300.html I have found that the only reason that evolutionists get up in arms about teaching Creationism in schools is because they are afraid of evolution being disproved. If evolution is false, scientists want to know it. Unlike creationists, they have no emotional or spiritual investment in the defense of their theory; their investment lies in the pursuit of knowledge and truth, even if that path leads to the debunking of long-held ideas. Creationist sites like Answersingenesis openly claim that no evidence, ever, even as of yet undiscovered evidence, could possibly refute creationism. This is not real science.Evolutionists know that if they are losing the argument over evolution and intelligent design.Another lie. Religious propaganda has done an excellent job of inventing a dispute in the minds of the public, but in the scientific community, there is hardly even an argument, as all the available evidence for creationism has been neatly dispatched.I think that it is only fair to teach ALL creation theories because here in America we are trying our best to promote equality. In order to do that we must teach the creation story of all the major world religions, not JUST Christianity or JUST Evolution.Sure, in a religious education class, this is a great idea. In a science class, it is not. Another issue with evolution being taught in schools is that people love to glorify the "Separation of Church and State". However, Secular Humanism is a recognized religion that believes in evolution, therefore we have just crossed the Church/State boundary. Just because a philosophy that has been branded a religion has accepted evolution does not mean evolution is a religious theory. Its evidence is solidly based in science, and there are sects and individuals who accept evolution and still believe in various deities.The other issue is that we are brainwashing our students when we don't teach other creation theories.Are we brainwashing them, too, when you tell them the earth is round and that it rotates around the sun? When we teach them that their bodies are composed of cells? Because those are theories, too.Students won't ask those key questions about evolution when they don't know anything different than evolution. We aren't showing them all of the options and we are shutting down those who want to question the theory of evolution (religious motivation or not).Right, this is why nobody ever conducts any further experiments or research in order to further define the specifics and possibilities of evolution. Oh, wait, I forgot- this is happening all the time. It is blatantly going against the 1st amendment of freedom of speech and expression. It is impossible to claim that the government is taking a neutral stance by only teaching one creation theory. One must teach every single theory with an unbiased approach to be neutral. We are denying students the knowledge that they deserve.I do not see why the government needs to treat something that is true, and something that is false, as equal theories when it comes to what enters the classroom. I hope you would not advocate that students be taught that the moon could be made of cheese, if a religious group popped up that believed such an absurdity.  School textbooks are using outdated and unreliable information, teachers are fired for raising debates in class and teaching kids that evolution is just a theory and not fact, and the evolutionists are scrambling to shut down anyone who opposes evolution.Learn what 'theory' entails when used in the scientific sense. Just because people who support creationism are 'shut down' doesn't mean there is big desperate conspiracy theory to silence their shocking revelations. It mostly means their claims are wrong and that they are not taken very seriously among scientists.If Evolutionists believe that Evolution is a rock-solid, irrefutable theory then there should be no problem in teaching other creation theories since they must all fall short of evolution if Evolution is as irrefutable as people like to think.In other words, if x is true, then there's no problem with lying to people and telling them that y and z contradict x but are totally just as possible and well-supported.