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With evolution, there are observable things that can be corroborated in order to determine unambiguous age for an item or event. The theories that result are therefore based upon known quantities, known progression of processes that are observed not only on Earth, but on the other planets of our Solar System.
Creation (or ID) is based on *a book*.
I'm as big a fan of faith in the unknown/supernatural as anyone here, I think, but the teaching of Science will eventually encounter Evolution, or you aren't teaching it correctly. Teaching Science will never encounter Creationism, because it doesn't add up to the observed processes and evidence. It is based on a book, and nothing else. The associated theories of Creationism and Intelligent Design grew out of a book...and that isn't Science.
As I posed in another thread...what if the Intelligent Designers are just really, really advanced aliens, and we are essentially a big ant colony? Do we still have to call them God?
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