[donh]

If you are going to compel all children, regardless of creed, to attend public schools under the color of law, then you may not, Constitution or no Constitution, under any kind of reasonable moral code, teach them any ignorant twaddle you feel like teaching them just because you are a majority in a community. If you are going to claim to teach science, it ought to resemble what scientists think science is. If you want to teach something else--don't saddle innocent kids with misleading impressions that you are teaching them science. If you think anything goes so long as you create adherents to your beliefs, than yours is a God of treachery, deceit, and child sacrifice. Is that a camp you want to be in?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If you are going to claim to teach science, it ought to resemble what scientists think science is.

Then let the scientists pay for it. In my occupation, the employer tells the employee what to do. If the employee doesn't like it, they can quit.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If you are going to compel all children, regardless of creed, to attend public schools under the color of law

Of course that is not true, there is no law compelling children to attend public schools, just that they be educated. Abolishing that law would be a good start. People who do not want to be educated, can't be educated.

[HairOfTheDog]

You seem to enjoy talking about science and comparing different theories about the origins of the earth and the life that resides here. What makes you think kids wouldn't enjoy the same discussion in a high school classroom? - Science can survive discussion, can't it? And so can faith.

I do support discussion of the "ignorant twaddle" theory, if many of the parents of those children believe it to be true, you bet. Parents should not be sending their children to school only to have the school tell them everything they hear from their parents, and their Pastor on Sunday is unquestionably wrong.

Let the scientist's views be known... but we don't have to stop there as if no one else has a theory.