It's Friday, May 8th, 2015, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.

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podcasting app. So what do you think about teaching creationism in schools?

Like, and I don't mean, is it okay to teach it?

I mean, do you think that we should not be allowed to teach creationism in school?

Well, it depends on where. I feel more strongly about where than anything else. I'm probably going to say no on both counts, but in science

class, certainly no, because whether it's intelligent design or any other things, that's not a

scientific theory. That shouldn't be taught.

But creationism in maybe a religious studies class, I could see. I don't really want it there either.

So, of course, I'm never going to teach creationism in any kind of class. But I, you know, also wonder if you're exactly right, that maybe it should be allowed to be taught in, you know, a philosophy class or a, you know, also wonder if you're exactly right, that maybe it should be allowed to be taught in,

you know, a philosophy class or, you know, philosophy of religion class or even a, in a sense,

like sort of controversies in the education of science class. But I don't think, I don't know,

maybe we should have one. But I certainly agree with a federal judge who ruled in a case in 2005 that the teaching of intelligent design, which I'm probably going to

get called out on this, is not the same thing as creationism. I'm sure there's some kind of subtle

difference. But in my mind, the two are very similar, that it is unconstitutional to teach

intelligent design in public school science classes.

That seems sensical to me because it's not a scientific theory.

So in response to that, some states, notably Texas, Louisiana, and Tennessee,

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