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Niki Wichman Religion in schools Religion should be kept in church, and Creationism should not be taught alongside Evolution

‍‍‍Outline: I. Introduction: (include general ideas that will introduce your topic)
 * Thesis Statement (your premise - the point of your essay) Religion should be kept in church, and Creationism should not be taught alongside Evolution

II. Body Paragraph #1 - Topic Sentence (subject + opinion) Religion should be kept in church. It would take very little prayer to offend some people, and unless the vote for religious expression is unanimous, some people will still feel excluded. III. Body Paragraph #2 - Topic Sentence (subject + opinion) Creationism should not be taught alongside Evolution.
 * Concrete Detail: Government funded voucher plans, which would let parents choose which school to send their children to, would allow tax money to go to schools run by churches.(a wall worth keeping)
 * Concrete Detail: America's wrigglings over religion seem to be increasing. The christian right, now a force on many school boards, wants to see prayer back in the classroom. (a wall worth keeping)
 * Concrete Detail: God is leaned on heavily, worshipped generally and feared almost everywhere. Notions of separation make little sense in towns where churches display the flag, or where all the children in the public schools are Christian. (a wall worth keeping)
 * Concrete Detail: If you start to try and prove creationism, you'll be getting into a lot of religious arguments. Whereas if you're just dealing with the subject of evolution, you can stay on the scientific grounds. (Henry)
 * Concrete Detail: Teaching creation science takes more work. (Henry)
 * Concrete Detail: Knocking evolution is a more acceptable approach to creation science. (Henry)

IV. Body Paragraph #3 - Topic Sentence (subject + opinion) Evolution needs to stop being called a theory. Rough Draft There is little agreement on teaching students about how life developed. The matter probably should have been settled by now. After all, in 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Orgin of Species, the foundation of modern biology. Many questioned whether God should be involved or left at church and bible study groups. Today, religion is working its way back into schools, and freedom of religion does not seem so free anymore. Some even argue about whether creationism should be taught in public schools. The views of today's Americans are becoming less scientific and reasonable, and more religious and unrealistic. Religion should be kept in church, and Creationism should not be taught alongside Evolution.
 * Concrete Detail: If creationism is discussed, it should be made clear to pupils that it is not accepted by the scientific community. (Collins)
 * Concrete Detail: The laws of physics favour the development of matter, suns, planets, and ultimately, life, a supreme being fits quite nicely. That is why religious folk never try to interfere with physics lessons. (Collins)
 * Concrete Detail: Creationism is a theory, but it happens to be wrong, while Darwin's theory of natural selection, overwhelmingly supported by evidence, is right. (Wilby)

Religion should not be forced or practiced in public schools. It would take very little prayer to offend some people and unless there is a greater solution, people will be excluded. A problem America is facing, is churches bringing religion back into schools. "The christian right, now a force on many school boards, wants to see prayer back in the classroom (a wall worth keeping)." This causes many disagreements and defeats the purpose of religious freedom. Every child should be entitled to their own religious opinion. If parents want their child to be raised religiously, then they can influence those ideas at church. Prayer in public schools can also cause too much of a religious atmosphere, and some children may become tired and sick of their religion. School is meant for teaching, not preaching.

Creationism should be recognized, but not taught alongside evolution. Creationism states the belief that a higher power created the universe and life in under a week. Evolution is the foundation of modern biology that holds that all species developed from earlier forms over millions of years through chance mutation and the process of natural selection. Does evolution not seem a lot more realistic and reasonable? "If you start to try and prove creationism, you'll be getting into a lot of religious arguments. Whereas if you're just dealing with the subject of evolution, you can stay on the scientific grounds. (Henry)" People have a lot of different views on creationism but when teaching evolution, you can "stay on scientific grounds" and teach what is accepted in the scientific community. Students should be taught facts and laws of science. They should be shown the evidence and data that makes facts and laws true. Evolution does obtain enough evidence to be proven and considered a law, while creationism cannot be proven nor does it hold any evidence and should not be taught.

Evolution needs to stop being called a theory. "If creationism is discussed, it should be made clear to pupils that it is not accepted by the scientific community (Collins)." Students should know that most scientists do not accept creationism. They should focus mainly on evolution because that is the theory that is most reasonable, and it is also the theory most scientists study. Evolution is considered a theory, but the word theory, has two seperate definitions. Evolution skeptics might refer to the word theory as just a hypothesis or an idea, but the word theory, in Darwin's theory of evolution, comes into the same place as Newton's theory of gravity. It is scientific fact. "The laws of physics favour the development of matter, suns, planets, and ultimately, life, a supreme being fits quite nicely. That is why religious folk never try to interfere with physics lessons. (Collins)" Darwin's theory and physics can prove how most of the universe was created. When people add in a God, it does not fit in at all. Religion has people believing that there is an invisable man, that lives in the sky watching everything everyone does, every second of every day. When you simplify religion, it does not seem that reasonable.

A lot of churches have been trying to shove religion back into schools, the one place is does not belong.