Title: Why It Is Unfair to Teach Creationism in Public Schools
Headings: Why It Is Unfair to Teach Creationism in Public Schools
Why It Is Unfair to Teach Creationism in Public Schools
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Content: But where do they all fit in? Allowing creationism to be taught in the classroom is a slippery slope: eventually, we would have to accommodate every creation myth under the sun, and if we include Hindu, Buddhist, and Hopi in addition to the creation story in Genesis, we would be forced to sacrifice class time devoted to core secular subjects that American students lag behind in such as math, science, and logic. Public schools, in essence, would become more like seminaries or religious philosophy schools, and they would lack comprehensive coverage of all of the arts and sciences. It seems, then, that the most practical solution to this problem is to keep creationism out of public schools altogether. Besides, if parents want their children to learn about creationism, why don't they just teach it to them at home, or take them to a church sermon or Sunday school? Meanwhile, nonreligious students get to keep their right to freedom from religion in a secular public school domain. This seems like a fair compromise. "But most people in American public schools are Christian", the creationist will counter, "so the will of the Christian majority should rule out over the will of the non-Christian minority." First, this is a logical fallacy known as argumentum ad populum, which states that something must be right because it is popular.