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: 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. It is like saying that you should smoke just because all of your friends do. A scientific hypothesis gains privilege not because of how many people believe in it, but by how well it withstands the test of objective verification. If we do not yet know which hypothesis is superior, we must start out by treating them all as equal. For, in the end, the majority might have their facts wrong. Second, the First Amendment of the United States Constitution was created largely with the intent of protecting minorities from tyranny of the majority (cf.