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

In countries with the highest living standard are very few believers, countries like Sweden, Norway, Czech, Finland, Japan... has the number of believer bellow 15% and it's decreasing.I didn't say that believers have the highest standard of living, only that they keep on living. As I said, Evolution is about the "successful path." Sweden and some of those other countries are living an illusion. Much of their money is made from other countries taking advantage of their banking laws.God is often found in the "fox hole" so to speak. When you are living large, independent, living more or less disaster free, God is quickly forgotten. But when the shit hits the fan, people find God. It is a Biblical Statute that only the humble find God. I'm not very humble, so maybe I haven't really found God. But even so, what you are saying doesn't prove me wrong. Higher standard of living sort of means more to lose. And another thing about these places (I think) is that they don't have a strong military.War sucks, but is an age old reality. If serious war ever broke out, there is no promise neutrality would be honored.There are a number of counties that have decided that military was simply too expensive, like Costa Rica, that have gotten rich by dumping their military. Peace is awesome, but if it broken, where do you stand.As I have said before, Evolution is about the successful path. So far, the successful path included religion.Oh, and don't get me wrong. I grieve at many of the actions of religion. The Spanish Inquisition makes me angry. As a Mormon from Southern UT, my culture massacred a wagon train of innocent people. Many white people came to America and killed Native American en-mass with bio-warfare, usually claiming right in God. And especially, I grieve for the scholars of Alexandra. I loved the idea of the Library. An opportunity came up for me a few years back and I was able to work on the New Library of Alexandria in the rebuilding of it. It was one of the greatest honors of my life. Who knows where we would be if some of those things hadn't happened. And then again, we don't know where we would be if those things hadn't happened.One point that I sometimes bring up in this discussion is Testosterone. The levels of Testosterone have dropped drastically in American Males. Men in their 20's have lower levels then men in their 80's. Young men are getting their levels checked and taking supplements.Humans have survived as we are for about 150,000 years. But what if our lack of warring and killings lower our levels of Testosterone and we all turn into pancake flipping pansies and the race dies off except the "barbaric ones?"We cannot separate ourselves from the history of success that got us here. It's a little bit like killing the goose that laid the golden egg.I believe in a higher being. I some times look at these "Idiot Savants" and wonder why I don't have that kind of ability. The human mind is obviously capable of incredible things. Why am I such an idiot without the Savant?Why hasn't science taken off in the past? Plato and Hermies were incredible. Sometimes I read stuff and think "wow, that is amazing" and come to find out it was Hermies idea. (My older brother used to call me Hermies without knowing what it meant. I was flattered.)But why? Why did evolution decide to kill and crush the "thinkers?" Why we are almost intentionally disconnected from our awesome abilities? I'm a basic idiot, and discovered quite by accident that I can play the piano. It just comes out and I love to play. I compose stuff on the fly, learn new patterns and make new songs. I don't know where that stuff comes from.What I am trying to suggest here: is that man isn't ready for their awesome abilities. It's just one of the "Creator legends" but there is a story that Atlantis was sort of like what you suggest. Smart, high standard of living, etc, but they did something stupid and destroyed their culture.There is myth that the knowledge was intentionally buried. Maybe the "survivor gene" decided that we could not handle being smart. I mean, look at us now. We smart, we also on the verge of killing ourselves.