Evolution over Creationism for the Public School System

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“On one hand, you’ve got kids going to Sunday school, and they’re telling them that God created them, and then they go to school and they’re being taught that man evolved from an ape” (White, Gary). The argument has taken the better part of a century, as to if creationism or evolution should be taught in public schools (Vedantam, Shankar); and no closer have we came to deciding which idea or more appropriately which theory should be taught to the youth of America. Roughly twenty to twenty-five percent of public school educators holding creationist views and nearly all the text books used currently contain evolution as their founding principle (Dean, Cornelia). All of the confusion over whose theory is more correct or viable for the American public school system, has caused quite a stir the between religious views which are well established theories and the undeniable facts of evolution. Additionally, Darwinism which is the official name for the theory of evolution is able to provide accurate predictions, which creationism for the vast majority of the time cannot provide; which is why evolution is a more practical model of science to teach in American public schools.
Charles Darwin the creator of the theory of Darwinism, which would later evolve into The “Intelligent Design” Model which we know as the “Evolution” model changed our world by making a simple observation that conflicted with the current dominant views of the time, which was that all animals did not extend from a common ancestor. (Dean, Cornelia) The evolution theory has given us a totally different way to look at the world that surrounds us, by making observations and making conclusions that are able to be backed up with experiments and explaining many preexisting sce...

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