Tim Daneliuk wrote:

John Emmons wrote:
SNIP

Getting back to the point I tried to make in my earlier post, the professor
wasn't demanding that her church teach his beliefs, why do christians
insist on having schools teach about theirs?

Because they are forced to pay for those schools and are getting
ripped off if they then cannot have their desired content therein
represented. That's why public funding for schools is such an
abyss - it is impossible to have any single institution represent
the ideas and values of a society as diverse as ours fairly - there
isn't enough time in the day.

The point of public education is not to promote "fairness", it's to
provide a education of "readin', writin' 'n 'rithmetic" to the unwashed
masses in an attempt to have sufficiently broad literacy that the
concept of the republic can survive. Unfortunately, both sides in this
debate have conspired to remove much of that from our schools.

On the ID side, attempting to force it in as a science is simply
misguided by the uninformed who truly do believe there is a scientific
basis for it and that there is an "argument" -- they're simply
misinformed -- or a flanking movement by those who lost out in the
creationism argument and see it as a way to still win by changing
tactics.

OTOH, those on the extreme end of the ACLU-freaks who attempt to remove
absolutely every reference to anything they connote as even remotely
connected to religon are as much of demogogues on the other end as the
most fervent Falwell-ite.