Creatinism in schools

There may be a new approach that Creationists can take to get their view of creationism in classrooms. This article discusses a view that is being proposed by the director of education at the Royal Society. Essentially, his point seems to be that enough people believe in Creationism and are rejecting the accepted scientific view that it may be worth addressing these issues in an academic way in schools rather than dismissing them off hand.

Rev Prof Reiss, a biologist and Church of England minister, does have a point. We have for years argued that if we present the science and scoff at the Creationist views so dearly held by people, then it will magically be banished. It has not happened. In fact, as this article suggests, belief in Creationism may in fact be gaining ground. We need a better approach.

On the other hand, it seems ludicrous to entrust such a debate to teachers in schools. With the internet at people's fingertips, it would be easy for well informed students to run circles around teachers, where the discussion becomes moot. It's like asking someone who has seen an aircraft fly and read a little bit about the science, but no fundamental understanding of all the principles to go back to the middle ages and explain it to people then. The problem would be, at a certain point, the person wouldn't be able to explain it. At that point, the credibility of the argument would rest on the credibility of the debaters, and the credibility of the debater wouldn't be much. My teachers in school had trouble explaining such non controversial topics as osmosis, surface tension and momentum. How in the world would they have actually been able to conduct this debate?