First, I don’t think a religious variety of creationism should be allowed. Creationists: hear me out. Evolutionists: don’t sound the victory trumpets yet. Now, Holly is most certainly mistaken in qualifying “creationism and evolution can coexist peacefully” with the clause, “in a personal worldview.” There are simply too many world-class philosophers, atheists...

Creationism belongs in a classroom the same way discussions of unicorns do: it’s sort of a cool idea, if it’s true I hope magic was involved, but, ultimately, it has no merit for study in a valid scientific way. In a personal worldview, creationism and evolution can coexist peacefully. While the idea of creationism is little more than a fairytale to me, someone’s...

Science and religion have been at odds since before science was formally science. Since the 1920s, fundamentalist Christians have brought lawsuits against promoting the idea of evolution. Today, evolution is taught across the country, but there are still vestiges of creationism taught in the South. There are even Christian scientists that use the scientific method to defend...