Do American Scientist pay regard to creationism while studying evolution?

[Ted K]

No, legitimate scientists pay no attention to creationism in their own work, since it's not science. However, we are constantly having to waste our time battling against those who want to shove creationism into public school science education--in THAT sense we are forced to deal with creationists. But that is a POLITICAL fight, not a scientific one.

The entire, fabricated "debate" is NOT about science. It's about politics, and so the creationists use the social tools best suited to that--the tools of political campaigning, advertising and public relations. The either-or, forced choice, phony duality between evolution OR creation is a contrivance of the creationist movement, which has no desire to advance scientific understanding, but rather, to convince scientifically illiterate lawmakers and school boards to get a literalist biblical world view firmly inserted into the ENTIRE public domain--they want to transform the entire society into a theocracy--they want total control, and their goals are long-term--so what better place to start than the education of the impressionable young.

If you're in India, then you've mainly heard about this through the media--and the creationists are expert at getting their views into the media. But what may not be so obvious if you don't live here is that they are a tiny minority even among Christians. In fact, the majority of Christians here are not even full-blown (i.e. politically active) creationists, e.g most Catholics (the largest single denomination of Christians in the U.S.) accept some form of evolution, and prefer that science education be restrcited to science. The creationists are composed of a tiny group of various sects of fundamentalists derived from several Protestant denominations. Their advantage is that although they are few in number, they have learned to manipulate the media, they have a number of powerfully rich benefactors, and they've have gotten numerous followers installed in Congress, so they have a very loud voice. They have been soundly defeated in EVERY legal challenge that's been thrown at them, but they don't give up--they just readjust their message. They're kind of like a mutating virus--as soon as you find an effective vaccine, it mutates into another form and you have to start all over again.

[Don]

Creationism has no basis for existing other than faith -so any argument supporting the existence of creationism is merely an argument for the existence of faith (continued belief in religious dogma in spite of all evidence to the contrary).

[Brandt]

Here in TN, they have taken steps though new legislation to allow creationism back into the classroom. This law turns the clock back nearly 100 years here in the seemingly unprogressive South and is simply embarrassing. There is no argument against the Theory of Evolution other than that of religious doctrine. The Monkey Law only opens the door for fanatic Christianity to creep its way back into our classrooms. You can see my visual response as a Tennessean to this absurd law on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/...da-in.html with some evolutionary art and a little bit of simple logic.