Should evolution or creationism be tought in schools?

I'd go even further, I'd say the gov should protect children from that.. don't know if that would work though, the parents always have the final say of course.

There is nothing wrong with people learing about the creation stories. But they have their own place; and it is not in public school. While I think that the original intent of the U.S. Constitution with regards to the separation between curch and state was to prevent the country from turning into a theocracy, the modern paradigm should be considered. The ones pushing most vigiously for re-introducing creationism to public schools tend to be evengelicals who are usually defined by the zeal with which they attempt to legislate their own morality unto everybody else. We need to protect everybody's rights as best we can. Most Christians today tend to regard the stories as the figurative rather than the literal truth anyway.

On the other hand I think state's rights are very important. States that tend to be more fundementalist have the same right to self-governance as all the other states. However this too can have inherent problems; before the civil war for instance, slavery was often justified using various religious sanction.

Actually there is a evolution that can be viewed besides with bacteria.

Heres a example of re-evolution, its shows DNA always holds the make up for what was past and if its ever needed again, for a advantage in nature, it can come back. Now this species didn't have wings for 50 MILLION years.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/15/1042520672205.html ?oneclick=true

This isn't the site with the info I wanted, but its the same two species. One species of stick bug evolved in two, one grew a stripe, but did come from a species that didn't have it. This happened recently, well within 10-15 years and I beleave its called rapid evolution.

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/oct02/ phenomena.html

Heres one last example: http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/evol/lizard.html

Now for religeon, while religeon isn't always the reason for war, it seems to be used for a major tool for war. A few examples, like in the crusades the Pope called on knights, he said that all knights who would fight for the cause and went to the holy land would get redemption and go to heaven no questions asked. Now knowing that knights fight and kill all the time, according to their religeon they'd be going to hell. So ofcourse every knight went, it was their profession basicly to fight and kill but none wanted to goto hell.

WW2, Hitler said jews were evil, just because of their religeon, and because of religeon millions were killed, just for what they beleaved in. Now if Judaism didn't exist these people might have all lived, ofcourse another group would have been chosen, but I'm willing to bet it wouldn't have been as easy of a target as the jews were.

Now-a-days Osama bin laden called a jihad, so muslims who probably wouldn't have joined felt the need to, they were taught not to allow the Christians who defended thejews into their holy lands. The terrorist, insurgents, or whatever you want to call them always claim they are working for their god and beleave when they die they will be given a spot in heaven and virgin wives.

So to me religeon is away for propaganda, so bring people raised in their religeon to fight for a cause that they probably wouldn't do if taught differently. Religeon is dangerous, there are other spiritual paths to take. But having a god who can sit back and allow his own people to fight, to hardwire brutal intentions in our minds that come to us so naturally so it seems, but then says not to kill?

Evolution made us a competitor, we evolved to fight and its what made us survive. We are a exploring species always leaping forward in technology to reach for what we want, we are a species of curiosty always wanting to know whats beyond a point, and we are a species of war, the farther down the line we go we still have wars perhaps tribal instincts embedded in our minds that evolution hasn't taken out, a primal instinct.