Should creationism be taught in schools?

Creationism should be taught as part of philosophy or religion courses

Question: Should creationism be taught in schools?
Position1 of 3›: Yes, creationism should be taught in schools
Argument‹2 of 3›: Creationism should be taught as part of philosophy or religion courses

While it is not fitting for creationism to be taught along scientific fact, it should be taught in a philosophy or religion course.

The argument

While creationism should not be taught as a science, that does not mean that it should not be taught at all. The objection to teaching creationism is an objection to a category error — presenting a religious account as though it were an empirical one — and the remedy for a category error is to put the material in its proper category, not to remove it from the curriculum. Every culture has its creation myths, which ancient people used to explain how the world came to be. Most are about how darkness became light and nothing became something, and they arose from a reflection on the nature of life and existence. Understood that way, they are among the oldest evidence we have of how human beings have thought about their own origins, and that is a subject schools already claim to teach. The variety of these accounts is itself instructive. In the Bible, a story believed by the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities, it is God who creates the world over a period of six days; in the Navajo tradition, creation is thought of as a sequence where worlds emerge from other worlds; in Māori legend Ranginui the sky father and Papatūānuku the earth mother create the world. Set beside one another, these accounts teach something no single one of them could teach alone: that the impulse to explain origins is universal while the explanations are particular to a people and a place. A pupil who has encountered several is far better placed to understand any one of them, including their own. Philosopher Daniel Dennett proposes requiring all children to take a world religions class at a young age, in which they are taught the facts of all major world religions. His proposal is deliberately even-handed, and it disarms the usual worry about indoctrination: as long as children are informed of other religions, they can be taught whatever creed their parents and mentors believe they should learn. Creationism therefore belongs in schools — in philosophy or religion courses, where it can be studied for what it is.

Premises

[P1]Creation myths from many cultures are valuable expressions of how humans have understood existence and the world's origins. [P2] Teaching such myths in philosophy or religion classes informs students about diverse worldviews without presenting them as science. [C] Therefore, creationism should be taught in schools as part of philosophy or religion courses.

Counter-arguments

The creation story is true and should be taught as scientific fact in science class.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] Only the Christian creation story is true.