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Creationism and the Classroom
The American classroom is suffering from a major deficiency. The science curriculum supports one theory of evolution and no other theory as to how the existence of the universe has come to be. This narrow-minded approach has kept many young minds from seeing a very broad picture of this world.
Scientific creationism should be included in our public school curriculum because it is paramount to the progress of modern science. Duane Gish, who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Berkeley, says, "…neither creation nor evolution may be referred to as scientific theory since neither can offer eyewitness evidence of what happened in the past." Gish further states, "Both are ultimately based upon inferences derived from circumstantial evidence. As such, they remain on an equal footing and should receive equal time in public classrooms in the United States"
Creationism assumes there is a Creator who designed the universe with purpose and gave the universe......

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