I agree with you that an education in the liberal arts should encompass a wide variety of subjects, including science and theology. However, metaphysics and theology are NOT sciences and should not be construde as such. Nor is science a theology, even though certain stringent athiests have tried to force-fit sience into a theology. THe theological and the scientific extremes have both become extremely dogmatic in their views.
TO me, the Cobb county decision is interesting, provided the critiquing of evolutionary theory is done constructively. In other words, it is done to show the dynamic nature of scietific understanding and that all theories have limitations and areas that lack a complete understanding. It is the process of science that explores those areas, often with conflicting ideas. It happens at the cutting edge of all the sciences, not just biological evolution. What I do fear is that the Cobb county decision will open the door to teach the shortcomings and controversies of evolution rather than focus on the underlying concepts that do unify those scientists involved in biological evolutionary research. ALso, I worry that it will be used to recycle all the worn arguements that abuse other areas of science to try to "disprove" evolution and to "disprove" the chmical, physical, geological and cosmological sciences that are well established.
That is an interesting take. Perhaps there are those who a reserve particular subject matter for the name science. Is it possible to give a date when this shift in the meaning occurred?
The view that only science is science is redundant. The view that areas of human experience cannot come under the scrutiny of human knowledge is the very monopoly of a dogmatism that you warn against.