[donh]

I've got news for you: Yours isn't the only money paying for public schools. Neither are your beliefs about science the only ones worthy of credibility.

Yes they are. If you want to teach a course in what scientists don't think, then by all means avail yourself of an opposing view, however, if you want to teach a course in what scientists do think, that is what you will have to teach in that course.

You would, by force of law, prevent free inquiry among the body politic, and to that extent you are just like the Pope in Galileo's day.

Yes, well, and to the extent that I'm not threatening you with painful death for expressing your opinions in public, I am not just like the Pope in Galileo's day.

You have all the freedom you can handle almost anywhere you like, but not in the science classroom where you are, quite rightly, restricted to teaching children what scientists think.

[Fester Chugabrew]

You have all the freedom you can handle almost anywhere you like, but not in the science classroom where you are, quite rightly, restricted to teaching children what scientists think.

You mean like this?

[HiTech RedNeck]

You have all the freedom you can handle almost anywhere you like, but not in the science classroom where you are, quite rightly, restricted to teaching children what scientists think.

If these really were "What Scientists Think" classes, that would be fine. Trouble is, they are more like "Here Is The Truth" classes. There is an awkward gap between what is now called "philosophy" and what is now called "science" and woe betide the poor fool who tries to keep a foot in both.

[Fester Chugabrew]

You have all the freedom you can handle almost anywhere you like, but not in the science classroom where you are, quite rightly, restricted to teaching children what scientists think.

Such a comment, coming from one whose thought processes are the cognative equivalent of Boron Nitride, must be taken with a grain of Sodium Chloride.