I'm a Christian, but I took Evolution in public school and it didn't do anything to convince me with the "evidence" they showed which was little more than the drawing of the ape becoming a man. Anyway, I think there is little harm in Evolution being taught, so I think it is fine in public schools, but just to protect conscience, if a child, on their own decision and not their parents, wants to be exempt from the class they should be able to take an alternate class for conscience sake, and not an alternate religious class but a neutral science class like Chemistry of Physics. I don't think Intelligent Design should be taught, but not because of Separation of Church and State... if religious topics can't be propagated in school then neither should anti-religious topics. But I think since teachers do so bad at "proving" Evolution I wouldn't trust them with even trying to explain Intelligent Design fairly. I don't feel threatened by Evolution, but no one should be forced to take it.
2007-02-20
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