Should Evolution Be Taught In Schools Essay

Evolution or Creationism Let us go back in time to the roaring 1920’s where jazz was loud and dancing was known as an every night kind of exercise for everyone! Not only were things changing around us, but also school’s education. John Scopes is in court in Dalton, Tennessee for teaching his high school biology class Darwin’s theory of Evolution. Not only against the law according to William Jennings Bryan who is afraid the morals of others going down under with the tradition home. Thus making headlines in the Newspapers all around the United States. It has long been debated whether or not evolution or creationism should be taught in schools. Creationism is a belief that a divine being created all the creatures on Earth and there is no scientific evidence supporting that claim. In 1925 with the Scopes Trail took place, creationism was known to be taught at home, church, and school. Leaving students to question; what is the difference between a regular theory rather than a scientific theory? What exactly is the Theory of Evolution? Lastly what is Creationism? Now however, the theory of evolution has been proven right time and time again and because of that, evolution is vastly more popular than creationism and should be taught in schools. First
Though some states do teach both and very few teach how evolution is wrong, the majority of public school students in the US are taught evolution. Creation is a belief and evolution is a scientific theory. Different published works will say contrasting things about this controversy and how well, scientifically speaking the two sides stack against each other. Neither creation nor evolution can be proven using the scientific method because they can’t be tested. All that is left to do is take the evidence left by both sides and compare them to how well they fit into the science and history of the