Creationist dogma will be taught alongside evolution in a second UK school, despite the fact that even the Pope seems to accept the evidence for evolution these days.
“Evolution will be taught, other theories will be taught and children will be left to take a view of it themselves.”
Creationism may be called a theory by some, but to compare creationism to evolution is not comparing like with like. When scientists refer to a theory, they mean something that there is evidence for. There is no evidence for creationism, it is a hypothesis and a hypothesis for which there are alternatives with evidence – theories.
The earth beneath our feet often looks the same color and texture as bullshit, lets call this the bullshit creation hypothesis. In this case, if children are to be taught all of the hypotheses of creation then we should teach them that the earth may be made entirely and quite literally out of bullshit.
I don’t think we should teach children bullshit theories.