Plans to say
Since I'm doing my paper on the debate of whether creationism should be taught in school or not, my audience would most likely be academics and people in education. But since the academic community has almost universally agreed that creationism has no place in a science classroom, I will not just focus on the science of it.
Plans to do
Since a recent poll had the United States population almost split down the middle in belief between evolution and creationism, I can address the larger issue of scientific illeteracy. That scientific illiteracy is a bad thing for a country to have because it is through knowledge of how things are and work that makes it able for a country to fix their problems. Also, how the proponents of intelligent design theory have helped to give the false-belief that creationism has scientific validity. The thing that can tie this all together is the idea of what the purpose of education is, and how educators can address this problem and what they should do about it.
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Hey Mike, it's Sydney. I agree that your audience will be educators, but what may be interesting is if your audience is a private Christian based school. Here, the argument may be more relevant. Private schools (and home schools for that matter)have a legal responsibility to teach their students certain course material. I'm not sure what their requirements on science is, but there could easily be a debate on whether or not to teach creationism which follows their religious beliefs or evolution which is accepted as correct within the scientific community. What are the educators' responsibility to their students- teach what is religiously accepted or proved scientifically correct? It would be really interesting if you addressed the question of what disservice the teachers may be committing teaching one view or another. Don't forget to research the opposing side too- it's easy to dismiss the opposition when you have such a strong opinion on one side.
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