Evolution in our Public Schools
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PHI 103: Informal Logic
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Evolution in our Public Schools
I. Introduction
A. Thesis Statement
One of the major concerns in the scientific studies of biology today is about evolution being taught in our public schools. This has been an ongoing concern for the religious sects, teachers, school board members, students, parents, and state officials. It has been the talk of the courts since the Darwin Theory came along. Many issues have risen over the years since evolution was introduced to the world and into the school system. The questions of whether mankind evolved from a monkey or the way of creationism, that man was created by God as stated in the book of Genesis (Bible). Other issues that came up were with the teachers themselves and having to teach evolution in their biology classes, when not fully understanding evolution itself. In this essay we will discuss the arguments of evolution versus creationism that is being taught in our public schools and whether it is acceptable to teach evolution to our school children.
II. Body paragraph # 1 – Topic Sentence # 1
The disputes of evolution started back in the late 19th century, some years after Charles Darwin came to the conclusion of linking human ancestry to lower animals by his evolution theory. This evolution of reasoning caused a stir in the public schools when it was put into the biology text books and required to be taught to the students. Some teachers had issues with teaching this because they themselves did not quit understand the theory of evolution. In addition, some of the teachers did not believe in this theory, rather, they believed in creationism, which is, God created man, as the Bible states in the book of Genesis. A. Supporting Evidence 1. As Everett Mendelsohn, James Moore, and Richard Milner