Creationism in Schools: Wrong and Detrimental to Logic and Education

Okay, this shouldn’t even be a topic I would spend time on, but I will because of how ludicrous it is. The whole debate, returning to education, between creationism and evolution shouldn’t even be a central issue and should have long since been ironed out.
As always, these frivolous debates fall back on the shoulders of the Christian fundamentalists and people so attached to the Bible I wouldn’t be surprised if that was their only outlet for sexual frustration; it would make the pages hard to peel apart though. Bible stories from the Book of Genesis say that the world and all life in it were created by God in six days. In the US, these fundamentalists and their associated groups have placed school boards in a stranglehold to make obligatory the teaching of creationism and to make evolution seem as a silly and even dangerous controversial scientific theory. If they cannot succeed in trying to keep evolution as a theory and creationism as fact, they have tried many times and still attempt to remove evolution from the list of examination topics as they have done in the state of Kansas.
Evolution is a well known and proven fact. This is something that can’t be swept under the rug or spackled over. It is fact. More times than I can count, religious people and creationist theorist say that evolution is simply a cockeyed theory. I have only one thing that itches in the back of my brain that turns to burning heat when people say this, and it’s called f------ LOGIC. Simple observations of events and genetic changes that are seen every day in nature have been accepted by the majority of the scientific community and a large part of the public as fact. The only part of evolution that can be considered a theory would be the reason for why this occurs. That is, in it of itself, a very good question. Evolution may be the answer to how and not the answer to why, and I accept and even embrace that possibility. Maybe, just for the sake of argument, God created life on Earth; however, it was through the process of evolution and not simply spawning everything in six days like he was some great all-powerful character out of an H. P. Lovecraft novel. However, in regarding the educational aspects of this argument, the question of why has no bearing on the fact that evolution does occur, which is a downright disproval of the prospect of typical Judeo-Christian creationism.
Then you get the nuts who want to keep the religious indoctrination of their family to carry on to the next generation, so you have the excuse that evolution is detrimental to the facts of the entire faith. Like I give a flying f--- if some fundamentalist feels threatened, it’s about time it was the other way around anyway. With regards to this, you have to take a logical standpoint when you are dealing with religion in schools; which, when you think on it, shouldn’t even be an issue. First, advocating and allowing the education of creationism in American schools would violate the separation of church and state. This is something I shouldn’t even have to bring up. It is something that shouldn’t happen based on our country’s creed and the laws which we have in place. This leads to people taking what other people thinks to be the ways they should act and live their lives without truly making their own choices.
This leads to a bias of opinions directed toward these children. When you pull the two topics apart, evolution has no issue with regards to morality. This doesn’t mean it’s immoral; it’s amoral, void of any moralistic qualms and issues that may arise. Evolution simply instructs people on what happened, and it does not put any emphasis in any way if evolution happening is good or not. It simply is a scientific action that occurs, nothing more. And then it brings me back to the Bible itself. There are so many things about the Bible that contradicts itself as well as is quite repulsive. The Bible is simply wrong if a literal interpretation is taken. This book, if it is taken literally, says that we all emerged out of two people, that means the wife you married or the boyfriend you enjoy f------ so much is actually your relative. Is it just me, or is that f--- ed up? Now, to those people who see the Bible and the Torah as the way they are supposed to be, moralistic stories trying to guide, not instruct, people on a path that could be deemed as righteous, then you aren’t as much to blame. I still believe, whether moderate or not, that religion is our intellectual and imaginative oppressors and slaveholders. I am glad to say that elements of the Catholic and Anglican churches have accepted that evolution is a true and proven fact even if they still cling to the majority of Christian doctrine. Though the books of the Bible were written around 100 years after the execution of Jesus, the books weren’t even compiled to become the Bible until 400 years after the death of Jesus. And it wasn’t religious officials and priests who constructed the book; it was Roman bureaucrats and politicians, trying to keep the Byzantine Empire intact. They later found out that the rise of Christianity would lead to the fall of the Roman way of life.
It then comes down to the impressionableness of students that are listening to each side or only one. Maybe there might be a sliver of truth behind something creationism brings to the table, but the way the holy books of religions pounce about, it is absolute bull s---. If people take the Bible as literal fact, then, as I have said, we are all related, the Earth is flat, shellfish are evil, and stars are actually angels looking down on us. Even common logic interferes with this kind of s---ty reasoning, I have to say.
However, getting back to the students, since school and the criteria that is taught to students is taken as absolute truth; creationism might be detrimental to the furthering of a person’s personal education and intellect. The fact that more than 50% of Americans believe that the world was created according to Genesis is a demonstration of the damage that Christian fundamentalists can do to the education of a child, and it is wrong. If people want their kids to stay inside the populous of religious masses, then send them to faith schools, which this is the overall policy of the institution, but don’t even try to justify any reason to teach it in public schools. Also, if it is fluttering across your mind, the prevention of creationism to be taught in public schools is not, in any way, violating freedom of religion. Evolution is not religious, and that fact alone makes the debate null and void.
I do not feel as impressionable as many of American students because of how I was raised. My father, opinionated as he was, gave me one undeniable and precious bit of advice: “No matter what you read, you should always question it.” And I have taken that lesson to heart more than anything I profited from in school. Overall, besides mathematics, I have learned about 10% of the information that I currently know in school, this is because not only did I question everything I read, I questioned everything I was taught. I taught myself the rest of the information that I currently know through self-education and investigation. The doctrine of religion is not supposed to be questioned and not supposed to be disputed, but that goes against my base principles as it should with anyone else. In my mind, when it comes to education, ignorance is not bliss. I constantly challenged the information brought forth by my public school teachers and the text books associated with the classes and discovered that the curriculum either was distorting, omitting or ignoring important facts and concepts in regards to the subjects. It always got me into trouble when I didn’t go along with the history they were teaching me and contradicted or corrected them with what I had already learned in multiple outside sources.
Evolution is real, and creationism is theocratic propaganda and misinformation. There is very few ways I can put it in simpler terms. The furthering of creationism education in public schools is detrimental to the way we should receive an education. That is it. Until next time.