re: #966 Salamantis

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You’d better believe that the lion’s share of the scientists who HAVE made bioscience discoveries or innovations began their bioscience education in public high school science classes that included evolution. Since most students won’t go into physics fields, either, perhaps we should not teach physics classes, either, and wonder what happened when we have no native born citizens to run our nuclear reactors or upgrade or man our nuclear deterrent.

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Yeah, and the Amish don’t drive automobiles, either, so perhaps we should dispense with public high school driver’s ed classes; right?

Is there some kind of cash prize for slaying the most strawmen? Public schools ARE dropping driver’s ed and dumbing down physics. I believe we should teach MORE physics, math, and economics because those are USEFUL subjects. Go count the number of nuclear engineers we graduated in this country last year. It won’t take long. Now count up the class-hours wasted on evolution. There is an economic cost for everything that the schools teach. The learned material has worth that cost.