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  • Teaching creationism in schools has been hotly debated in the United States since the Scopes

  • trial in 1925. Though the US constitution forbids the official establishment of religion,

  • today many state-sponsored public schools continue to the teach the Christian doctrine

  • of Creationism. So why does the US still teach Creationism?

  • Well, first off - in general, Creationism is the belief that God created the universe

  • out of nothing, and designed humans to resemble himself. Many fundamentalists also follow

  • the biblical idea that the earth is less than 10,000 years old. But evolution, a scientific

  • theory popularized by Charles Darwin in the 19th century, conflicts with these religious

  • beliefs. Evolution supposes that man evolved from primates over time, and that the earth

  • is billions of years old.

  • In the past, because the U.S. is mostly Christian, states had various laws banning the teaching

  • of evolution in public schools - or at least mandating that it be taught alongside Creationism.

  • However the Supreme Court has declared that teaching Creationism violated the Constitution’s

  • Establishment clause. Public schools must be religiously-neutral. And science is NOT

  • legally considered a form of religion.

  • However, some teachers still find ways around federal laws, by choosing their words carefully.

  • If they educate children about Creationism, but don’t specifically advocate for it,

  • it’s still legal.

  • In Tennessee and Louisiana, schools have state laws allowing teachers to address alternatives

  • to evolution, without advocating them. In Texas and Arkansas, charter schools reportedly

  • use textbooks that support creationist views. Then, in ten other states, including Florida,

  • Georgia, Indiana and Ohio, private schools, including religious institutions, still teach

  • creationism. So, right now, there are thousands of students being taught Christian doctrine

  • in the place of widely accepted science every year.

  • Because the US remains a predominantly christian, conservative nation, a 2014 Gallup poll revealed

  • that 42% of Americans still believe in Creationism. In the end, the debate will rage on, even

  • though the federal government has pretty clearly spoken on the issue, in favor of evolution.

  • So what does science actually say about human evolution? Trace explored it in depth on our

  • new channel TestTube Plus! Check out this playlist to learn about where humans came

  • from, and how we evolved.

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なぜアメリカでは未だに創造論が教えられているのか? (Why Is Creationism Still Taught In The U.S.?)

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