I do not personally support dropping them for "religious reasons." I sympathize with those who support dropping them, but my reasons are political and ethical. I think the idea that dropping them will cripple science, and many of the other arguments for pushing evolution, are sheer hype.
I think the correct conservative position is to get rid of monopolistic government schools, but I'm a realiist enough not to see that happening soon, if ever.
I keep having visions of Lysenko and what he did to science in the Soviet Union. I don't want to see a version of that here.
If the folks who have specific fundamentalist religius beliefs succeed in forcing evolution out of high school science classes, will that satisfy them? Will they then be satisfied and call it a day?
Somehow I doubt it.
I think Heinlein said it best:
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.Robert A. Heinlein, Postscript to Revolt in 2100, 1953