Isn't it about time we stopped fussing over creationism in schools? It has no place in any rational person's education.

If people wish to believe that the universe and all that therein is was created less than 10,000 years ago and that it came in a 'mature form' then fine, but please don't try and convince me (on no evidence whatsoever) that:

dinosaurs and people walked together; 
meat eating dinosaurs only ate vegetables until 'original sin'; 
the speed of light has slowed since the 'creation';
and all the other crackpot ideas...

Now, as long as they don't interfere with my life or scientfic and technological progress let them be to live in their deluded world. The problem is that they do try and interfere with progress. If we took the central message of 'intelligent design' creationism to heart, then we would make no scientific progress. In essence, the ID crowd simply say that anything that they cannot explain

But I am sick and tired of these so called upstanding Christian, seekers of truth who do nothing but deceive and lie. Even when you show conclusively that they lie they just ignore you and carry on lying. If that is what it means to be a 'card carrying Christian' then I, for one , resign from the club!

At least some places are being sensible. Here are a few reports of how creationism is being squeezed (quite rightly) out of the education system;

Creationism to be banished from Swedish schools

Published: 15th October 2007 07:57 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/8790/

The Swedish government is cracking down on religion in schools. New rules will include a ban on biology teachers teaching creationism or 'intelligent design' alongside evolution.

Council of Europe Reject Creationism

By Gilbert Reilhac

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Europe's main human rights body voted on Thursday to urge schools across the continent to firmly oppose the teaching of creationist and "intelligent design" views in their science classes.

The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly approved a resolution saying attacks on the theory of evolution were rooted "in forms of religious extremism" and amounted to a dangerous assault on science and human rights.
The text said European schools should "resist presentation of creationist ideas in any discipline other than religion." It said the "intelligent design" view defended by some United States conservatives was an updated version of creationism.
Creationism says God made the world in six days as depicted in the Bible. Intelligent design argues some life forms are too complex to have evolved according to Charles Darwin's theory and needed an unnamed higher intelligence to develop as they have.

Anne Brasseur, an Assembly member from Luxembourg who updated an earlier draft resolution, said the report showed how creationists -- most recently a shadowy Turkish Muslim writer Harun Yahya -- were trying to infiltrate European schools.

"The purpose of this report is to warn against the attempt to pass off a belief -- creationism -- as a science and to teach the theses of this belief in science classes," she said. "Its purpose is not to fight any belief."

The vote was due in June but was postponed because some members felt the original text amounted to an attack on religious belief. A few changes were made to spell out that it was not directed against religion.

The Council, based in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, oversees human rights standards in member states and enforces decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.

The resolution, which passed 48 votes to 25 with 3 abstentions, is not binding on the Council's 47 member states but reflects widespread opposition among politicians to teaching creationism in science class.

Some conservatives in the United States, both religious and secular, have long opposed the teaching of evolution in public schools but U.S. courts have regularly barred them from teaching what they describe as religious views of creation.
Pressure to teach creationism is weaker in Europe, but has been mounting. An Assembly committee took up the issue because Harun Yahya has been sending his lavish Islamic creationist book "Atlas of Creation" to schools in several countries.

Supporters of intelligent design want it taught in science class alongside evolution. A U.S. court ruled this out in a landmark decision in 2005, dismissing it as "neo-creationism."