Debate: Should students be allowed to choose to be taught creationism?
Side: Yes

Even if I bought that concept, which I do not, emotions would still not be more real than the facts in the external world.I dispute thee.Facts aren't exactly real, excluding mathematical facts. 1+1=2 and that's a fact.Facts lack depth and relational factors. We could say 1 apple plus 1 apple equals 2 apples. But what is an apple? Is the apple rotting, or growing still? How long is the apple going to be a apple? How long has the apple been an apple?Nothing in form is permanent. Nothing moves in form where trillions of relationships aren't affected. Maybe the fact is: "I went to the store." That doesn't describe anything that really happened. The list of things that actually happened could be trillions upon trillions of items. There is no small radius of influence. I am affecting everything from the heat and air quality, noise pollution, earth vibration, air displacement, I'm sure I killed a number of bugs on the way, and I put money in the hands of people pumping gas that oppress and kill their people, and I supported all of the machinery involved with that. Just by driving to the store, I have put things in motive that may last for millions of years.I'm not thinking highly of myself, I'm just trying to point out the chain reaction that every action can have. If you try to take just ONE FACT and totally define it, you simply couldn't. "John coughed." It seems like a fact. But he also propelled germs into the air and got Susie infected, who went home to her young son who caught the germs and died. He was going to grow up and achieve world peace, but John coughed.Facts are just snippets of an event. Facts don't consider all of the facts. Emotions tell us about a deeper reality. It might be a "fact" that if you don't pay the rent you won't have a home. But maybe your emotions start to mess with you. Maybe you start to skip out of work early, risking your job. You're not sure why, just can't stand it anymore. Your emotions are telling you something.There are some elements that were "created in humans." (Did you see that? I used the word "created." >: )) The formula for life is sort of like this. 1) Survival. 2) Obtain desires. 3) Seek perfection. 4) Need for stimulation or pleasure. 5) Be Happy.That is just a rough guess. These things are requirements for life. Life will withdraw it's support of your efforts if you do not comply with these things. It can be patient. But if you suppress or denial any of these things, you subconscious will start to mess with you and can twist you up in ways you wish had never been.Psycho killers, for example: There are some that are just born that way, but others that are made that way. Some of the most "at risk kids" are those that are taught to suppress their pleasure. They are taught the sex is a sin, that "touching themselves" will send them to hell. That loud laughter is a sin. Idol hands are the devils work shop, etc. The need for pleasure and stimulation grows within. One day, maybe a boy kills a fly and thinks, "wow, that felt sort of good." He begins to hide his methods of obtaining pleasure and it also take a sinister twist. If you look in to the spiritual forensic of it, it makes perfect sense.Emotions are more real than facts. They don't care that killing might be murder. They don't care that stealing might be illegal. They don't care that careless sex gets someone pregnant. They have their job, they are going to get it done.With logic, we can plan around some the emotional outbursts. Maybe we keep a condom in our wallet. Maybe give the ice cream to the neighbors before we eat it all. But even so, the emotions tell us about the reality deep down.Someone once told me to "trust my feelings." (sort of like use the force, Luke) and I was like, "are you out of your cotton picking mind?" I would kill at least a dozen people, impregnate this half of the city (I was younger) and lot of other stuff. So i didn't trust my feeling. Later, I realized that trusting my feeling meant that they were trying to tell me something. If I'm happy, I'm good with God, so to speak. If I'm not, then somewhere my feelings are at odds with my reality.