Personally I don’t believe in either the Bible’s creation story or its god, but I hate to see people giving up science because they can’t make it fit with their religion. Fortunately many Christians, probably most, find a way to believe in both. Unfortunately many others take the Bible as their science book, and in most cases no one is really telling them why it shouldn’t be taken that way.

Keith: I totally agree, but that’s the point! If people are going to be exposed to Creationism one way or another, why not present it fairly?

In this case that would basically mean tearing it apart and showing just how badly it fails to fit with the evidence we have in so many areas of science, and show all of reasons that Creationism simply can’t be considered science.

Normally I would agree that it wouldn’t be useful to spend too much time on unscientific subjects in a science class, but with all of the ID “scientists” and their “Creation Museums” and other nonsense springing up, I think that teaching children how to tell the difference between real science and mythology masquerading as science might be a very important lesson.

Personally I have no problem in believing in miracles. If God created the world in six literal twenty-four-hour days then it was a miracle. The problem with creationists like Ken Ham and the people over at Answers in Genesis is that they try and use the laws of science to “prove” the literal story of Genesis. But if they ever succeed (which they won’t) the only thing they’ll accomplish is not prove God but rather to disprove God’s miracle!