why if yes.

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Yes, because it's true and evidentially supported and so qualifies as science, unlike religious creation myths, which would perhaps be suitable for discussion in a class on comparative religion or sociology, because creationism is a sociological phenomenon in the U.S.

I think if you were truly forthcoming, Clarence, it [evolution] is true for you, because you believe it to be true, and want it to be true. Because you want to disbelieve in creation.

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Evolution is true because of evidence, whatever I or anyone else believes. Creation by God/s is a religious idea that's debatable. I don't know if God/s are even possible and I don't feel inclined to be guided by what I want to be true.

I wonder why a second grade dropout is worried about school curriculums ?
Is the illiterate jester going back to school?

u sure he ever made it past pre-school/kindergarten?

I think if you were truly forthcoming, Clarence, it [evolution] is true for you, because you believe it to be true, and want it to be true. Because you want to disbelieve in creation.

On June 22, 1633, Galileo Galilei was put on trial at Inquisition headquarters in Rome. All of the magnificent power of the Roman Catholic Church seemed arrayed against the famous scientist. Under threat of torture, imprisonment and even burning at the stake, he was forced, on his knees, to "abjure, curse and detest" a lifetime of brilliant and dedicated thought and labor.

By then an old man of 69 who in his defense referred to his "pitiable state of bodily indisposition," Galileo was charged with "vehement suspicion of heresy." He had to renounce "with sincere heart and unfeigned faith" his belief that the sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe and that Earth moved around the sun and not vice versa, as ecclesiastical teaching dictated.

Because he was willing to do this, at least verbally, the more serious of the threats remained only that. As one of his punishments, for example, he was to recite the seven penitential psalms once a week for three years. He also was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.

Finally, his book, Dialogue on the Great World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican (1632), which lay at the heart of the trial, was added to the index of banned books, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, maintained by the Inquisition.

Ten cardinals sat in judgment of Galileo. Pope Urban VIII was not present in person, but he was there in spirit, for his personal feelings of anger and frustration were the driving force behind the extraordinary proceedings. Urban recognized just how seriously Galileo's new science challenged established church doctrine. Worse, Galileo had declared that the book of nature was written in the language of mathematics, not in biblical terms.

I'll be the first to admit that Galileo got a raw deal from tge Catholic Church, but what has Galileo got to do with evolution? Did Galieo teach the evolution hypothesis?

God does not make mistakes

Jrbogie brought up an interesting point: he implies that the first three "days" were each periods of 24 hours, even if there was no sunrise or sunset to mark off the day. I suppose that is possible, but in Catholicism we are taught that the creation story of Genesis may not all be literally true, that it is possible that the earth existed for eons before God created man, and that the Bible is not supposed to be a scientific manual. One can even believe in the evolution hypothesis and be a Cathokic in good standing, but I personnaly opine that that hypothesis is hogwash.

But the Church emphasizes that it was God Who created the universe, in whatever manner, and that Adam and Eve were real persons, and that they fell from grace, and that they are the progenitors of the entire human race---to deny any of these three teachings is considered heresy by the Church.

Jrbogie, without a sun there is no sunlight, therefore there is no day. So when Genesis says that God created the sun on the fourth day, Genesis is admitting to being metaphorical.

This is not to say that God did not create the universe---I do firmly believe that He did.

"The Bible is not a scientific manual and should not be used in scientific disputes." --St. Augustine

The whole point of tge Genesis story is that God created everything out of nothing, that Adam and Eve were real people, that they fell from grace, and that they are the progenitors of the human race.