Even though its been debunked and disproven time and time again, creationism in various forms is still alive and doing surprisingly well.  In fact, research shows that many biology teachers are not only doing a poor job of teaching evolution, they are teaching creationism!

In its November/December 2001 issue, Skeptical Inquirer presents an article by Randy Moore, Educational Malpractice, which details such shocking statistics as

Percentage of high school biology teachers who teach creationism in their classes:

• South Dakota           16

• Louisiana                  14

• Georgia                     27

• Kentucky                  30

• Oregon                     26
  

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    Presented below are links to numerous well-researched and eminently persuasive websites and articles that long ago should have driven a stake through the monstrous heart of creationism.
  
  First, an article that reveals the REAL motives behind teaching creationism in the public schools.  It is imminently important to understand the "enemy's" motivation in order to help ensure their defeat.
  
  Creationism: A Bogus Science - What Are The Real Aims?

   

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If you think you can stand the absurdity, you might want to peruse these sites and read the propaganda firsthand.

Now onto the REAL science:

No Answers In Genesis

Creationism Immoral Pseudoscience: Impaling Gish

Debunking Creationism

Debunking the Creationist Lies about Incorrectly Dated Lava

Debunking the Paluxy Myth

Disproving the Young-Earth

Evolution : A Complete Resource

Evoutionary Theory

Creationism: The Growing Threat

The Evolution of Creationism

Evolution and the Politics of Creationism

Flaws in Creationism

Five Major Misconceptions About Evolution

Frequently Encountered Criticisms of Creationism

Holy Smokes

Horse Evolution

Observed Speciation

The Origin of Species

Polstrate Fossils

Pro Evolution/Anti Creationism Resources

Punctuated Equilbria

Radioactive Dating

The Recession of the Moon

Science & Creationism

Scopes Monkey Trial

Talk Origins

Transitional Fossils FAQ

Why Creation "Science" Must Be Kept Out of the Classroom

The Whole Silly Flood Thing

All the more interesting, then, to read his [Kurt Wise] personal testimony in In Six Days. It is actually quite moving, in a pathetic kind of way. He begins with his childhood ambition. Where other boys wanted to be astronauts or firemen, the young Kurt touchingly dreamed of getting a Ph.D. from Harvard and teaching science at a major university. He achieved the first part of his goal, but became increasingly uneasy as his scientific learning conflicted with his religious faith. When he could bear the strain no longer, he clinched the matter with a Bible and a pair of scissors. He went right through from Genesis 1 to Revelations 22, literally cutting out every verse that would have to go if the scientific worldview were true. At the end of this exercise, there was so little left of his Bible that

. . . try as I might, and even with the benefit of intact margins throughout the pages of Scripture, I found it impossible to pick up the Bible without it being rent in two. I had to make a decision between evolution and Scripture. Either the Scripture was true and evolution was wrong or evolution was true and I must toss out the Bible. . . . It was there that night that I accepted the Word of God and rejected all that would ever counter it, including evolution. With that, in great sorrow, I tossed into the fire all my dreams and hopes in science.

See what I mean about pathetic? Most revealing of all is Wise’s concluding paragraph:

Although there are scientific reasons for accepting a young earth, I am a young-age creationist because that is my understanding of the Scripture. As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college, if all the evidence in the universe turns against creationism, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a creationist because that is what the Word of God seems to indicate. Here I must stand.

YIKES!