Should creationism be taught in schools?

[J-Mann]

For the millionth time (why do we keep having these threads), yes, it should be taught in schools in their proper context.  Creationism should be taught in English or History classes along with all of the other historical religions and their beliefs.  It is unfair (discriminatory) to teach all the other worlds religions (current and past) and their beliefs while refusing to teach Christianity as well.

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I think there could be an elective philosophy class, as well, that would go more in depth into matters of faith.  However, it shouldn't be a part of science.

[J-Mann]

Actually, I find it to be pretty useless anyway, so it would be nice to see it removed.

hehehe . . . I know, that was unfair of me.    I'm not sure how it is taught today, but when we learned the old world mythologies, we first learned who the figures were for each civilization, and then we matched the similiar figures across the civilization (like Jupiter and Zues, etc).  It was neat that way to see how the civilzations mirrored each other (though Egythian mythology was a bit different), yet was vastly different than the Hebrew mythology.  I wish we had a teacher who knew more of the Asian mythologies back when I was in school, since that would have been a good discussion as well.  My sis-in-law has been working on a book that covers many of the world mythologies lately, and hopefully it will fill in those gaps in my education. 

I would argue of the extreme relevance of Greek and Roman mythology, among the many other things present in our world today that owe so much directly to those two cultures!  The ancient myths have a funny way of cropping up into the most ordinary of places...like the days of the week, for instance, which get their names from the Babylonian planet gods via Latin and Saxon.  You can really see the old gods' influence in the Romance languages, especially.

Saturday = Saturn (Latin and Saxon)
Thursday = Thor's Day (via Saxon) = Jupiter (Jueves in Spanish via Latin)
Wednesday = Woden's Day (via Saxon) = Mercury (Miercoles in Spanish via Latin)
Monday = Moon Day = Luna
Tuesday = Tiw's Day (via Saxon) = Mars (Martes in Spanish via Latin)
Friday = Frigg's Day (via Saxon) = Venus (Viernes in Spanish via Latin)

Sunday, incidently, is a bit different.  We call it Sunday, which relates to the sun god or Sol, but in Romance languages, Sunday is closer to Domingo (Spanish) because of the Christian influence on the calander from 313 onward.

And that's just scratching the surface. Greek and Roman history -- including mythology -- should be taught moreso than it is now!