This thread is proof that atheists want to force their ideas upon others. Disgusting.
What nonsense, this thread proves no such thing.
First off not everyone who holds that the modern understanding of evolution is correct are atheists. That is a canard. The Catholic Church in particular has stated that there is no inherent conflict between their belief, and an acceptance of evolution. They are far from being alone in this regard. Alfred Russel Wallace the eminent evolutionist, who was a contemporary of Darwin, was a Deist. Darwin himself wrote that, "(it) seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist & an evolutionist."
Or again you may read the statement of Theodosius Dobzhansky, a member of the Russian Orthodox Church, and one of the fathers of the modern evolutionary synthesis:
I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's, method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened in 4004 BC; it is a process that began some 10 billion years ago and is still under way... Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology. Only if symbols are construed to mean what they are not intended to mean can there arise imaginary, insoluble conflicts... the blunder leads to blasphemy: the Creator is accused of systematic deceitfulness.
Secondly the question is whether creationism should be taught. As well as the idea of what laws might be written on the subject. In science classes students should be introduced to ideas which can be defended by the methods of science. When I was a young student that was what happened. During the introductory lectures our teacher gave an explicit discussion of various religious opinions on biology and cosmology and what they implied for the subjects we were discussing.
A refusal to even learn what the evidence for evolution is, will work well for maintaining a belief until a child becomes an adult and quite possibly learns that rather than having been properly informed they have been instead sheltered from ideas. May they not be inclined to judge that they have been sheltered because there is no good answer to those ideas?
The fossil record gives evidence that implies the creatures living in the world have changed. The notion that the world can not change without the intervention of the creator would seem to imply an incompetent creator. One notion that some believers hold is that we, and in some sense all of creation share (in a lesser manner) one of the primary characteristics of the creator, the ability to create.
Made in his image...None of this says that you must or will agree with any of the above statements. But before you speak of "proof" it might help to gain a more complete understanding of the whole context.
