Should Creationism Be Taught in American Public Schools? (Final Paper, Annotated Bibliography)
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Amidst everything else happening in the world today, there is a battle raging on between American families, citizens, friends, and coworkers. A civil war has affected Americans for years, but this conflict cannot be seen on any battlefield; instead, it can be found in public school classrooms across the nation. Scientists have been exchanging blows with religious believers over the creation of man since 1859, when Darwin first published his book on the theory of evolution [Ucci 29]. More recently, religious believers have been fighting to keep creationism, as it is in the Bible, in the classroom. The majority of these people are Christians who generally side with the belief that God created mankind in one of two ways: man and woman were created at one time and eventually populated the earth, or that God created the world and its contents in six days [Isaak 13]. Evolution theory has proved its scientific relevance in many instances, specifically in the fact that it can be tested in the same method that other scientific material is. Despite this, religious followers continue to question its place in American classrooms and science 1
Should Creationism Be Taught in American Public Schools? (Final Paper, Annotated Bibliography)
Amidst everything else happening in the world today, there is a battle raging on between American families, citizens, friends, and coworkers. A civil war has affected Americans for years, but this conflict cannot be seen on any battlefield; instead, it can be found in public school classrooms across the nation. Scientists have been exchanging blows with religious believers over the creation of man since 1859, when Darwin first published his book on the theory of evolution [Ucci 29]. More recentl
