National Science Supervisors Association

The Teaching of Creationism in the Science Curriculum

The National Science Supervisors Association is opposed to the teaching of "creationism" in the science curricula of the nation's schools. Creationism, and other pseudo-sciences, are premised upon supernatural explanations of natural phenomena and therefore are outside the realm of science.

We therefore stand with such organizations as the National Association of Biology Teachers, the Council of State Science Supervisors, the National Science Teachers Association, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in opposing the inclusion of such pseudo-sciences in the science curricula of the schools of the nation.

Adopted 5 April, 1990. The National Science Supervisors Association has since changed its name to National Science Education Leadership Association. Permission to print the National Science Education Leadership Association's position paper, "The Teaching of Creationism in the Science Curriculum," is given with the expressed written consent of NSELA.