[KMJames]

...Evolution has PROFOUND cultural, political, and religious consequences for all the children in the government school. Those who win the government school struggle over evolution or ID will influence the political, cultural, and religious worldview of the next generation of voters, politicians, judges, film makers, journalists, artists, and community leaders of all kinds. Is it any wonder that the fight is so bitter?...

Well said. Though the worldview battle and its repercussions may not be acknowledged by the materialists, it most certainly explains the intensity of the struggle.

[Physicist]

Though the worldview battle and its repercussions may not be acknowledged by the materialists

Oh, I acknowledge it. It's just that the moral superiority lies with science over superstition.

[wintertime]

Well said. Though the worldview battle and its repercussions may not be acknowledged by the materialists, it most certainly explains the intensity of the struggle.

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It seems that those defending evolution are those who refuse to admit that government schools can not and never have been politically, culturally, or religiously neutral in content or consequences.

Why do they refuse to admit this? Is it because they need the compulsory attendance, compulsory funded government schools to push forth an agenda ( one that may have nothing to do with science)?

Evolution is merely one of hundreds of government school curriculum and policy issues that are NOT and never have been neutral.