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Originally Posted by zen_tom
It would be a good way to teach the Scientific method, on one hand, there's Evolution, on the other, creationism. Both are conflicting theories that back themselves up in different ways. Each also asks questions of the other (naturally, since they are mutually incompatible)
If they were taught together in school, children would quickly learn how to rationalise, to think for themselves and would have experience in making judgements on the validity and worthiness of conflicting ideas.
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appearantly you missed the first, oh, 100 posts in this thread. it's been mentioned over and over that A) creationism isn't a theory (in the scientific sense), it's a myth. a story. a fable. B) the only conflict between the two is that one is scientifically testable, has evidence gathered showing it the most likely explanation even if the details haven't been worked out 100% yet while the other has no evidence other than a moldy book.
the only question that is asked by creationism is "and how did that happen?" evolution will give you a variety of answers depending on what exactly is being asked while creationism when asked any question can only respond with "because jesus told me so".
finally, public school age children do not have the mental capacity to rationalize. you'll find very few students under high school age who have finshed devolping their cognitive skills and rational thinking skills. even in high school the younger ages are still going to be mixed in their development.
think back to when you were in elementary school... in kindergarden, a lot of kids still have imaginary friends. how old were you when you stopped thinking there were monsters under the bed, that the tooth fairy, easter bunny and santa claus were real.