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- Advocates of separation of church and state say that "the classroom is an inappropriate place for school-sponsored worship"
- They say that "school officials should not...teach religious doctrines, such as creationism"12
- These advocates view the teaching of intelligent design as a stepping stone to later teach creationism12
- There is currently a delicate balance between the religion taught in schools and the science or evolution that is taught
- English classes often teach religious ideas in order to allow students to more fully understand allusions made in texts
- Science classes often teach science, as the name suggests. This includes evolution etc.
- Other classes tend to keep away from religion completely
- The darker colors represent areas where people take the Bible as literally being the word of God, word for word
- Areas such as Louisiana and the southern United States and some western states have a far higher percentage of people who take the scriptures as God's word.
- Overall, about 33% of Americans take the Bible as the word of God
- 30% see it as being mostly true, but definitely not completely
- 28% see the Bible as another book written by man, not by God
- (9% refused to answer)
- In some southern states as much as 65% of the population takes the scriptures word for word, in others as little as 20%
