If you are going to teach something, you ought to be willing to defend it, especially if taxpayers are paying your salary. I don't know enough about evolution. I don't want to give a creationist a forum. Of the thousands of scientific controversies, the creation-evolution controversy is the only one I know where some scientists refuse to exchange and discuss the evidence. That is an unscientific, closeminded position.
Creation is a religious idea.
It is not science. Creation certainly has religious implications, but much scientific evidence bears on the subject. Only the scientific aspects would be permitted in this written debate. An umpire would remove any religious, or antireligious, comments from the exchange. If my only comments were religious, the umpire would strike them from the debate.