re: #981 Salamantis

It appears that you just don’t want US public high school students to be taught evolution, and would rather keep them ignorant of such empirical facts. I can not think of any nonreligious reason for you to assume such a stance.

You can teach them all the evolution you want but not with tax dollars. I don’t care. I just don’t want the government telling people their religion is wrong, even if it is. There is not end to that. Just because evolution wins this time doesn’t mean that next time the Branch Davidians can’t cobble together enough votes to set the curriculum.

To make your argument about the importance of teaching evolution you had to include the whole field of biology. You’re thinking that evolution underlies all of biology. Fine. I’ll grant you that but you can still teach much more about biology than they currently cover and still not need to touch evolution. How many students take trigonometry without having the slightest idea of the proof for the Pythagorean theorem?

The only reason the evolution debate is brought up so often is because it’s a tool to beat up conservatives. If it was bona-fide concern for science and progress they would be screaming thier heads off about 40% drop out rates and dire state of education in the other sciences.