Creationism is major BS

But apparently still taught in school by ONE OUT OF EIGHT biology teachers!!!!

This is an old article I came by that states just that, which left me completely astonished:

One in eight U.S. high school teachers presents creationism as a valid alternative to evolution, says a poll published in the Public Library of Science Biology.

Of more than 900 teachers who responded to a poll conducted by Penn State University political scientist Michael Berkman and colleagues, 32 percent agreed that creationism and intelligent design should be taught as scientifically unsound. Forty percent said such explanations are religiously valid but inappropriate for science class.

However, 25 percent said they devoted classroom time to creationism or intelligent design. Of these, about one-half -- 12 percent of all teachers -- called creationism a "valid scientific alternative to Darwinian explanations for the origin of species," and the same number said that "many reputable scientists view these as valid alternatives to Darwinian theory."

I was floored when I read that, completely shocked. How can this happen? Creationism a valid scientific alternative to evolution? Really? Perhaps if you didn't evolve like the rest of us.

Unbelievable. I'd pull my kids from such a class so fast, that moron teacher's head would spin. And he'd probably attribute it to the approaching of the rapture.

The writer of the article puts it best:

Longtime Wired Science readers know that I'm less bothered than many science writers at the possibility of evolution being under-taught in science and biology courses. So long as a teacher imparts a sense of wonder and curiosity, the details will follow. However, teaching creationism or intelligent design alongside evolution, as if religious explanations had even a fraction of the scientific validity of evolution, is unacceptable -- it promotes fatally flawed, uncritical thinking.

I might be too extreme in my condemnation of this kind of teaching, but any rational person would have to agree with me that presenting creationism as having the same kind of weight as sound scientific research in a school setting, is wrong. It shouldn't be allowed.