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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
How could you NOT leave room? Anything you do allows students to find things. Even if you teach evolution as fact, people can think it's wrong. People taught the earth was flat and there were those who thought that was wrong.
Maybe some people just aren't raised to question? 
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GP, I couldn't agree more BUT consider the quality of students that we, as a country, are putting out. I can see one serious benefit to allowing other theories of origin to be taught: students and teachers will have to stop and think.
Regardless of my position on all this (as you know, I'm a creationist), I am not sure I completely understand why origin theories are taught at all to any significant degree. If we could put together textbooks that have a single chapter outlining some of the more accepted origin theories, that would be very interesting and informative.
It doesn't seem to matter one way or the other what origin theory scientists believe. Do they not work together already? Do they not make progress despite their differences?
I went to a Christian school where I didn't learn about evolution - to my disadvantage. When I got to college, I struggled through the first part of Biology 101 because I had NO foundation.
I would much rather have learned of various origin theories because 1) it would have helped explain a lot of things I learned later in life, 2) it would expose me to different cultures' worldviews and 3) it would have really made me think!!