Show that teaching creation in addition to evolution would cause us to fall further behind.
We are already continuing our downward spiral with creation not being in the picture. If teaching the ToE is the answer to our science education woes, then why isn’t it working?
http://www.sntp.net/education/education_stats.htm
Can you point to one advancement made in western science and medicine that was made possible by replacing science with religious instruction? Schools should teach science in science classes. If children are taught that a religious belief or superstition has as much scientific value as an actual scientific theory, they will be less prepared for work in that particular field.
If students who will go on to become researchers in field of communicable diseases are taught that the belief that disease is caused by demonic spirits is just as scientifically valid as germ theory, we will all suffer for it.
If students who will go on to become scientists are taught that the religious belief that the earth and all the life upon it was created wholly formed six thousand years ago is just as scientifically valid as the theory of evolution, modern cosmology, and modern geology, we will all suffer for it.
If you want to teach your children creation stories particular to your own religion, feel free to do so at your own house of worship or homeschool. No one is stopping you. Please do not, however, ask the rest of us to teach your religious ideas to our own children under the guise of "science."
Why?
Do you believe that you should be able to make claims that are pure speculation, provide absolutely no evidence to back them up, and expect that I should accept them until and unless I can provide evidence to the contrary?
Or is this another one of those "Well, the evos are doing it!" gambits to provide an opening to throw around another bucketful of perjoratives?