Richard Dawkins on Creation & Evolution at Iowa State University

Richard Dawkins was at Iowa State University on November 17th sharing his views on creation, evolution, and moral decisions with students and the community. He noted some very interesting view points that are strikingly similar to those of Bill Nye and his book "Undeniable". When asked about his thoughts on Iowa's legislation to allow creation to be taught in public schools, Dawkins replied, "I am a lover of truth. The fact that we can explain the illusion of design [in] the earlier pseudo non-explanation … offends me as an educator because I feel it gets in the way of young people [learning] the elegant beauty of why they exist."

He also stated that schools cannot allow for equal time for all views on how people were created. 

Brainwashing: (noun) a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas (Merriam-Webster)

When we don't allow for equal time for creation and evolution, are we not brainwashing children into believing what we want them to believe? Creationists are not calling for the evolution theory to be pulled out of the text books. They are simply asking that the theory be taught as just that... a theory, not fact. Children should be given equal opportunity to hear the biblical account and the other theories out there that people have come up with. They should also be taught that both word views require faith to believe. While Creation has it's roots in the biblical account with scientific evidence to back it up, the evolution theory has it's roots in a big bang that no one saw in person and scientific evidence that doesn't quite add up.

Does this not sound like what the Communists and Nazis did to their people. The government decided what they were going to be taught and believe. Is not America a free country? Are we not allowed to believe whatever we want to believe (Christian or not Christian) and if so, why are our children not allowed to decide what they believe?

See this excerpt from The Declaration of Independence:

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations [to take or make use of without right], which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. (emphasis added)

The first amendment is a result of the usurpatations that the British put on their people before they came to America:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petitition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The government should not be dictating what children are taught in school. Equal time should be given to students regarding creation and evolution. Parents should be the main influence on their children, not government schooling.