h school teacher was convicted of unlawfully teaching the theory of evolution. In the United States, creationism faced a strong denial--in legal terms--in 1987, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may not require public schools to teach the creationist theory of human origin alongside evolution if such requirements are intended to promote religious belief. It was further determined that those states that had sought to "alter the science curriculum to reflect endorsement of a religious view that is antagonistic to the theory of evolution" were breaking the First Amendment ban on the establishment of religion. 1The biggest flaw with creation science is that we are ignoring the very things that make religion what it is today. Religion is a test of faith, and if the was ever a word the did a poorer job of defining a characteristic of science then I would be interested to hear it. As a matter of fact religion itself would not allow any of its beliefs to be held as scientific. During the early middle ages Thomas Aquinas established the 5 proofs. These were designed as scientific proofs to prove that God existed. The were short-lived to say the least. A vehement rejection of this idea that science could prove religion and in it creation, occurred not long after his death. So for creation to be called a science is preposterous. Those who call it a science are far from sanity. The definition of creationism is complex. One must start by saying that the belief in the creation of the universe given at the beginning of the Bible is literally true. Creationism is a belief based solely upon faith (which is a belief in and of itself). There are no scientific facts as a basis for this belief, solely conjectural theories and speculations, so how can we say this is science? It is ingrained into our minds, as children that a belief of a force, or supernatural entity, which is all powerful and all knowing, is watching over us and takin...
