Evolution: Fact or Theory?

The Florida State Board of Education will be voting on new educations standards tomorrow, but one of the more than a dozen "big ideas" being proposed has parents across the state up in arms.

The Board of Education has proposed 18 "big ideas" in an attempt to raise educational standards across the Sunshine State. But one of the supposedly major ideas mandates that evolution be taught as fact, and that it be taught as the "fundamental concept underlying all of biology."

According to the Orlando Sentinel, parents across the state have flooded the Florida Department of Education's website, denouncing the new science standard. Many parents have threatened to pull their children from public schools if the new evolution standard passes, and others have called for evolution to be taught as theory alongside creation and intelligent design. However, officials are rejecting those ideas as religious indoctrination.

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As a parent of two young children I am deeply concerned about the actions of the Florida Department of Education. Neither evolution nor creationism can be explained or proven to a scientific fact. There is much evidence to support both sides of the aisle.

To remove the choices in education and learning leads us closer and closer to a socialist nation. Evidence should be presented and the students allowed to draw their own conclusion. I believe in creationism. I don't profess to know everything there is to know on either evolution or creationism. I do understand that there is as much scientific evidence to debunk some evidence of evolutionism and to support creationism. My point is, that this is a choice that I have made after the things that I have learned. I wasn't forced or compelled to believe in something that violated my faith and understanding of the world as I know and believe it to be.

Public schools are the most dangerous place in the world to be for our children already. That trend began when we began to remove God from the classroom. For all these scientific advocates out there, I remain dumbfounded that they can't see the pattern of decline our society has taken since the removal of God from our society.