Should evolution and creationism be taught side-by-side in public schools?

@NudasPriest I stopped being an evolutionist because I didn't have enough faith. It was simply impossible to believe any longer. Believing there was a man in the moon was more believable than evolution. Evolution demands hard facts but when it can't find any it denies the fact that there are no facts to back it up.

@NudasPriest No it doesn't, it only requires all of the lack of faith smart people have.

@Vin53 I disrespectfully disagree.

@NudasPriest Do you contend that your god is wholly omnipotent?

@Vin53 You're making assumptions. This is about the theory of evolution's inability to address the origin of life. Nothing more.

@NudasPriest All religions begin with the origin of life.

@NudasPriest Evolution doesn't require your belief... it requires a complete, consistent, and coherent, explanation of the tsunami of evidence that evolution has occurred. The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection fulfills that requirement.
No belief required.
No faith required (especially as faith is merely pretending to know something that you don't actually know).

@NudasPriest Abiogenesis and Evolution are two separate topics.
Evolution does not address abiogenesis because evolution describes what happens after life has begun.

@newjaninev2 Everything requires belief. Like you are choosing to believe that all the evidence exists even though you haven't tested the veracity yourself, you are trusting that there is a consensus and all the data and information presented to you is real rather than fabricated along with all of the experts who you've never even met so you don't know if they actually exist either. Stop being so arrogant about science, it's unbecoming.

@Jackaloftheazuresand all the evidence is demonstrable and available for inspection on demand.
By anyone, at any time.

That reduces your claim to epistemology rather than a challenge to evidence and the scientific method.

@newjaninev2 Have you ever demanded it all to actually know that?

Prove that any findings aren't just a string of coincidences.

@Jackaloftheazuresand so the odds of all the right chemicals being in the right place at the right time is 1 with 42000 zeros to one. 10 is one followed by 1 zero and 100 is 1 followed by 2 zeros and 1000 is one followed by 3 zeros. Just a note of comparison the number of seconds in 13 billion years is I followed by 17 zeros. Science believes something is impossible when the odd are 1 followed by 59 zeros. So according to science the chance of life existing is completely impossible.

@hippyjoe1955 Peas in a pod. Don't try to buddy up with me, I don't need your help nor do I care for your tagteam tactics

@Jackaloftheazuresand Too funny! I am not trying to tag team anyone especially you.