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Similar conversations about the role of religion in schools have become prevalent in Texas. Last year, the Legislature passed a bill allowing schools to employ a chaplain as a counselor.
As of 2024, all fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia includes the teaching of evolution in their public school science standards, while none teach intelligent design and creationism is discussed in non-science classes, such as philosophy, comparative religion, or current affairs.
While many Christian denominations do not raise theological objections to the modern evolutionary synthesis as an explanation for the present forms of life on planet Earth, various socially conservative, traditionalist, and fundamentalist religious sects and political groups within Christianity and Islam have objected vehemently to the study and teaching of biological evolution.
Children often acquire religious views approximating those of their parents, although they may also be influenced by others they communicate with – such as peers and teachers. Matters relating the subject of children and religion may include rites of passage , education , and child psychology , as well as discussion of the moral issue of the ...
Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of teaching creationism.The Court considered a Louisiana law requiring that where evolutionary science was taught in public schools, creation science must also be taught.
A Texas teacher is being accused of trying to force one of her 7th graders to deny the existence of God with a writing assignment. Jordan Wooley, 12, and her classmates were given a critical ...
Creationists commonly argue against evolution on the grounds that "evolution is a religion; it is not a science," [130] in order to undermine the higher ground biologists claim in debating creationists, and to reframe the debate from being between science (evolution) and religion (creationism) to being between two equally religious beliefs—or ...
Professor Eugene F. Provenzo argues that by the 1890s Catholic educators had selected and adapted non-religious textbook content such that parochial students learned mainstream American political and cultural values without compromising their religious beliefs. The Catholic textbooks presented a generalized nondenominational Christianity and ...