Teaching evolution in schools is a highly debated issue between science and religion. In Kansas, the State Board of Education has decided to de-emphasize evolution in favor of the creation story. Throughout the science community, it is believed that evolution should be taught in school because of all the scientific evidence that points to the validity of evolution and because it is a cornerstone of biology. Most all other states emphasize the importance of evolution, as do most colleges. In the religious community, evolution is considered to be totally false, because it contradicts the Bible's creation story. Both sides must be taken into account when deciding upon whether or not evolution should be taught in schools. Not teaching evolution in schools, like in Kansas, will place students who plan to advance in science fields at a disadvantage. Evolution is a theory that can not be ignored for further scientific learning but can other theories be ignored, like the creation story.
             Evolution is the cornerstone of Biology and a foundation for many scientific theories. Most scientists hold strong to the belief that evolution is the creation story of humans, and this is evident by scientific studies. The evolutionists believe that humans were "created" the same way as every other living organism in the world, through a slow process of evolution. One of their leading beliefs of evolution is that humans are derived from primates, and this is evident by human's similarities to primates. Humans and primates both have short faces, overlapping visual fields, grasping hands, large brains and some scientists even argue alertness and curiosity. It is possible to communicate with some types of primates with the use sign language because primates are highly intelligent mammals. The main question posed by this theory is how and why did the primates and humans end up being different. Evolutionists believe that the evolution from humans to ...