Creationism is not science

I was astounded to read in the Daily Herald recently that all the candidates for the Lake Zurich US95 school district board feel that creationism should be taught in a science class. Goldberg and Pietro in particular should be laughed out of the board.

The Baptist church has done an admirable job pushing their particular agenda that Genesis, Chapter 1 is not compatible with modern scientific principles. This includes confusing the scientific usage of the term “theory.”

A law describes what happens, a theory explains why it happens. The theory of evolution (from Darwin, 1859) is more accepted in the science community than the theory of gravity, as revised by Einstein in 1916 from Newton’s original equations. Do they also dispute gravity?

Moreover, the Vatican has stated that evolution and the Bible are not in conflict. My father, a Methodist minister and as conservative as they come, has no issue with evolution or the Big Bang and enjoys reading theoretical physics.

In fact, Genesis 1 remarkably matches both of these recent scientific discoveries, if you allow that the word “day” is meant in the general sense and not the 24-hour sense (even before days and hours existed).

But beyond that, in this “day and age” promoting particular religious views in the classroom is strictly against our constitution and would significantly undermine the authenticity of our science teachers.

Why should our teachers push an agenda supported only by fundamentalist Christians and Muslims?

Robert Neff

Lake Zurich