re: #959 bobbuck

That is not even close to my position. I’m not really for teaching ANY version of creation at all (in public schools, anyway.) It’s a touchy subject and a huge distraction from more useful subjects. More importantly, we’re handing the far left a club to beat us with by obsessing with the ONLY science topic they’re interested in. When will our friends on the left be ridiculed for not knowing F=ma, Q+W=ΔU, V=IR, etc? I sold cars for a while and I had a hippie professor come in to buy a flex-fuel car because she thought it she would get better gas mileage on ethanol. I’m sure she knew all about evolution but her science knowledge was so poor that she was going to pay an extra 25-40% for fuel. Evolution has no value to the average person. If you want to study it go knock yourself out but let the schools teach more practical stuff to the masses.

Following your specious logic, kids should not be taught ANY science, or much eklse in public schools, except for generic practical skills. How many of them will go on to engage in fields involving history, or mathematics, or requiring the ability to write cogent essays? Should these subjects be dispensed with too? According to your line of thinking, yes.

Only by teaching evolution in public high school science classes will public school educated kids be exposed to it, and even possibly consider majoring in biosience fields on the basis of what they actually involve. Once creationist kids get into college and discover that evolutionary theory is a central and fundamental keystone of bioscience, scads of them simply drop out, and into other less personally troubling fields. And kids that are taught creationism are much more likely to subscribe to it.

This is not good for either our kids or our nation.