This week’s topic at Surfnetkids.com is Human Evolution. As I was penning it, I thought a lot about my readers, many of whom, might teach creationism instead of evolution. Since comments on not enabled on that section of Surfnetkids.com, I decided to open up the discussion here.
So, my question to you is, as a parent or a teacher, do you teach evolution or creationism? Feel free to leave a comment, but please be civil.
I know this section of the blog is not the place for my correspondence but I did not find a place for general comments. I know that there are limitation on the website and people do not always have control over ads that are run. I thought you may want to know, however, that the very first thing that popped up when I went to the kids surf site was an ad picturing a half naked lady and advertising erotic movies.
I thought a site for children would be better monitored?? Maybe you are not aware of what is showing.
We can build a virtual world on our computers in a few days, create people and play out scenes, ‘The Sims’ for eg, we give them free will and watch them, we play at God.
But we think a higher power couldn’t possibly create a world in six days.
We still haven’t found the missing link.
Yet we mankind lives on a tiny speck in our vast universe which we agree is expanding, what is it expanding into when there has to be more room for it to expand?
We have only searched a fifth of the world’s oceans, which may house creatures we thought were extinct.
The fact is we don’t know much at all, when we start saying Evolution is a fact we are being arrogant, it is only a theory, and if we are to advance in Science we need to teach children to ask questions, because then they will be the great Scientists of the future, and I hope that they put us to shame, because Evolution is an old theory, which a lot of Scientists I know find laughable, and they are not all creationists, you only have to search the internet, it’s time to start discovering more about our world, other than filling in gaps with dark matter!
Big bang started from nothing. A matter that exists from the nothingness needs a Creator.
Creation is done through evolution. We do not remain primitives, since God loves us human beings, He continues to create and recreate us making us even better than our ancestors. If God created us already perfect, there is no more room for improvement.
I cannot believe that it is 2011 and anyone would teach creationism unless required by law! Just my opinion.
I would like to know if the people teaching creationism are public or private school as I would not want my tax dollars to be spent on teaching creationism. I believe the public schools are places for Science, English, Math, Arts, etc. and that religion is best left to the home and/or church, or a private school.
The battle is not one of young earth vs. old earth, or billions of years vs. six days, or creation vs. evolution—the real battle is the authority of the Word of God vs. man’s fallible opinions. … The leading humanist of Darwin’s day, Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), eloquently pointed out the inconsistencies of reinterpreting Scripture to fit with popular scientific thinking. (ref: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/couldnt-god-have-used-evolution ) The world knows the battle better than we do, Huxley stated it well. Change one section at will and changing others becomes easy.
Science has again and again proven that we (humans) didn’t evolve from pond scum or any other slimy film and science has proven that the earth just appeared at some point in history. I teach creation, but have explained evolution as well. Yes, we as humans have evolved, whether for good or not, but we did not evolve from some slimy film into amphibians, into apes, into cavemen and into humans we we know them today. We were created as humans and have evolved as humans to what we are today.
I would agree with Liza – I did take the poll, but felt uncomfortable with the options. I happily teach my daughter both creationism and evolution, but with the scientific evidence that they both require a leap of faith. Nuff said…
I always find it interesting how people describe this question based on religious belief. Some will try and say that science pushes them in one direction or another which cannot be true since the scientific method precludes the origen of life being scientifice (no observation, no ability to reproduce the event in a controlled area, no notes on chemical breakdown over the centuries on the same substances used to try and determine age). So the decision is based on one’s belief, not one’s ability to be scientific.
I teach creationism and show how archaeology has always verified creationism. I also teach evolution and how it constantly changes and is a hypothesis at best. But kids need to know how to articulate both in order to be able to be educated.