As a biology teacher in a somewhat conservative area, I see no reason to give time to an idea that makes fallacious statements about geology, cosmology, astronomy, physics, biochemistry, genetics, history, anthropology...should I continue this list?
Teaching students that every opinion, no matter how patently false, deserves equal footing with established facts and theories is inane. Our country is already behind in the sciences, should we continue to push ourselves back?
Besides, everything in biology points to common ancestry, not special creation regardless of the religion proferring it.
A class on special creation cannot be "neutral" anyway. All of the evidence against special creation would make the class moot. Also, the claims of creationists are so thoroughly refuted that the class would be antithetical to its stated purpose. Time for class. Take care.
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