Bill Nye on creationism:

[eric]

[Indy]

I think the anti-science element of the GOP is troubling. I agree with him, although I happen to believe in both. I don't see why both can't have happened.

[Boris Johnson]

Science education is incredibly important to maintaining the standing of the U.S's major research institutions. JPL, MIT, Cal-Tech and so on. All of which are fairly important to world science.

Several states filling the heads of several thousand kids with noise is one thing, noise that is going to really impede their grasp of the scientific method is another. School doesn't create specialists, just gives people general knowledge more than anything, but without a proper grasp of the scientific method, that persons ability to train as a scientist is essentially hobbled.

Why no teach them the world was made by a crow or the future can be predicted from the entrails of animals, if as i've heard so often, the goal is really to stop dogmatism in favour of 'just one theory' and expand the pluralistic nature of education.

[foadi]

one day these religious nutcases will be purged from govt and their nonsense thrown out of classrooms and the wide-scale child abuse/brainwashing by parents will become socially unacceptable.

[Thundertaker]

Wow, is this Billy Nye the Science guy? I remember watching his program when I was living in States...

[eric]

[PoS]

I wonder if Dr. Wizard (I think that was his name?) is still alive...

[Thundertaker]

I remember this guy demonstrating the strength of tubes by stabbing right through a potato with a straw, which was cool...

As for the topic in hand, if creationists want to have their 'theory' taught in schools, they should have to demonstrate proper, peer-reviewed empirical evidence to justify teaching it, rather than scripture. If they can do that, then there should be no objections to teaching both theories...

[The Comrade]

[eynon81]