No, what's really fun is listening to a bunch of people say that woman being created from a man's rib, Adam & Eve being the first humans, the Earth only being approx 6,000 years old and the story of Noah should all be taught in science classes.
Boy you chose the wrong argument. Remember Dolly the sheep??? Created from one cell of her (clone). Seem's like simple genetic engineering to change the sex. We do not know how God performs his miricles but in this case our Scientist could do the same thing in a few years. We also do not know how long it took God to perform this miricle.
Find called oldest human ancestor: Age of skull from Africa is put at 6-7 million years
Who says that? I really want you to supply quotes of people saying schools should teach that.
Answers in Genesis (the organization mentioned in the article) does not want religion taught in public schools. Either does the Institute for Creation Research in California. Both of these organizations want:
1. Children to be taught to test everything the teacher says instead of dogmaticly accepting it as fact.
2. Children to be exposed to all valid theories for scientific fact. I'm not talking about Creationism. I'm referring to specific things like , where does oil come from, how does the sun generate its energy? Instead of picking the theory that is the most pro-evolution and just teaching that one.
3. They want children to be given the tools and encouragement to test different theories. And to decide for themselves which theory is best?
4. They want the scientific fact taught, not a biased interpretation.
For example I read a while back, (on free republic) a story that humans had nearly died out many times in the past. That's a biased interpretation. The fact (which was mentioned in the article) was that Modern Man was lacking the(genetically)diversity that a long existance(tens of thousands of years) would have provided. Nowhere in the article did the writer provide any other evidence to suggest that mankind nearly died out many times. But it is now being taught as fact in order to protect the belief that modern man has existed for certain length of time.
Why don't we teach the fact(that genetic diversity suggests that modern man has not existed a long period of time.) And then allow the students to test different theories and determine which one best explains this fact. Instead of teaching just one position. Let us teach students the scientific method, have them test the different theorys, and decide for themselves which is best. It's quite possible that there is a scientific reason that has nothing to do with the evolution/creation debate. But we will never discover it, if our scientific education exists for the purpose of ensuring that no one ever questions evolution.