Do you think Creationism should be taught in school? If so, why? [Spirituality & Religion]

But how do you teach evolution and creationism along side each other?
How can you teach science and then put a faith based idea in the same arena?

@UnparalleledMonster: You don't [i]teach[/i] either, you teach as in tell how each goes impartially. Secular doesn't have to be anti-religion, it can be *Neutral* Which means that all that has been thought about something is given equal consideration. When a whole point of view is avoided ie: Creationism, does that not speak unscientific things in a broad sense, that of being closed minded for example??

@TraumenDenkener:

I understand that you're thinking of presenting a balanced view. But the evidence is not balanced, not equal.

Evolution theory is based in science while creationism is based in faith. Evolution is as much a fact as particle theory or gravitational theory.
Should a universe in which the sun orbits the earth be taught as equally relevant to the one in which the earth and other planets orbit the sun?
Science showed us the answer there, should we ignore it here?

@UnparalleledMonster: Nothing should be ignored. One is devoted to facts, the other to how one lives their life. Seeing a connection is hindered i see from the pov that only considers the "factual" side and not the experiential side.

@TraumenDenkener:

I'm not asking whether it should be taught at all, im asking whether it should be taught on equal footing with evolution and other sciences

@UnparalleledMonster:

I am answering you by saying there should no longer be any offical theory taught as fact but a relativistic comparative thingamajiggie presentation that has no bias at all.

I know, it wouldn't be very forseeable, but it is what i think should be, but i wouldn't go much further than this right here for it.

@TraumenDenkener:

You think that there should be nothing that we teach as something that is known?
What is the point of teaching at all then?

If we start teaching people that the "truth" is what they feel is correct then we're not really teaching anything useful.

@UnparalleledMonster: What is known is continuing to be known, and when that is taught as fact, it is dead. Knowing is so much more than things that are seen today as fact but tomorrow is blown apart by discovery.

@TraumenDenkener:

Well yes, but until what we know is shown to be false we must believe that what we know is true.
Currently the evidence suggests one thing to science. Until the evidence suggests something else we will not discard what we know.