Another thing wrong with this topic is that evolution does not always lead to improvement and greater complexity. An organism is either well adapted to its environment or it is not. Some organisms have even developed too much complexity, called hyperspecialization, and have become extinct as a result. Evolution is simply an autonomous system driven by environmental/natural variation and selection. “Evolution as a whole seems to explain the variation of life, but it doesn't explain where the first living thing came from!” Yes, that's absolutely true. Evolution does not explain where living things originated. It shouldn't. Evolution explains how living organisms have changed over time. The origins of life on Earth from non-life lie in a separate field of study called Abiogenesis. Abiogenesis is still only a hypothesis and has not yet reached the status of a scientific theory like evolution. It could be started by self-replicating RNA, or amino acids, or proteins, or Yahweh, or Allah, or Zeus, or Panspermia, or aliens. We don't yet have the evidence to say how life originally began. Scientists are looking for evidence to show how life began. The fact that Abiogenesis is a separate field of study from Evolution should lead creationists to be more willing to have evolution taught in schools. In fact, this was one of the primary arguments used by plaintiffs in Kansas Board of Education hearings to justify teaching evolution in science curricula. Mr. Irigonegaray said in his closing statement: “Draft 2 accurately represents science as neutral with respect to the nature of spiritual reality.” (7) This means that science doesn't have a mission... middle of paper... what they want people to do is allow them to cheat and give them a shortcut around this rigorous process. This would be very bad science policy and would be even worse in terms of educational policy. The education policy does not allow this cheating in any of its other curricula. Let's say I believed that 2+2=5. I have every right to believe that. I can teach it to my kids at home. It doesn't matter what others think. However, the one thing I can't do is put it in a math program. Should a teacher say that if you want you can believe that a triangle has four sides or that 2+2=5? If an English teacher were to say that if you want you can say the phrase “I bring my books to class”. instead of "I brought my books to class."? These ideas seem absurd to us, yet many are willing to allow religious privilege to take precedence over educational policy in the case of science..