You mean they flourished under Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Kim Jung Il?
Not sure where you're going with that. It's a mixed bag.
While they haven't attempted to 'eliminate' any specific discipline, they - let's go with an example everyone can recognize - want to force Creationism (oops, "Intelligent Design") into public schools and/or restrict the teaching of evolution.
So by your own admission, they haven't tried to impose that dominionist theocracy on everyone.
I admitted nothing. It's a gradual process.
Creation was taught in schools for centuries with no deleterious impact on education.
You mean the centuries before Origin of Species? LOL!
Christian schools which do teach both, outperform public schools.
You're attributing the success of private Christian schools to the teaching of evolution? You have got to be kidding me!
It couldn't be the higher level of parental involvement and the higher grade of teachers? (Which is present in nearly all private schools, not just Christian.)
Homeschoolers, who are often very conservative Christians, teach both as well and they do even better than the private schools in educating and graduating their students.
Yeah. One-on-one (or one-on-a very small number) teaching has amazing results.
There is no precedent set that indicates that teaching creation/ID is going to result in more poorly educated students in the sciences. The statistics do not bear it out.
Cite the studies. I'll love to see 'em.
Further: I was using the 700 Club's ratings as an example of how popular the anti-science segment of the US population is.
Why do you assume that the viewership of the 700 club is inherently *anti-science*?
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city. And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for his help because he might not be there."- Pat Robertson on Dover
The majority of dedicated viewers would, naturally, agree with his opinion.
(And evos are complaining about made up labels?)
"Evos"? Are those the nutty people that believe earth and life are older than 12,000 years? ;)
Sources?
Pat Robertson and The 700 Club.
Don't you believe that a human embryo is a human being?
As I said: not touching that one.
You’re being deliberately obtuse about the connection between the teaching of creation and evolution in school and are misrepresenting my comments.
Of course, I did not say that the teaching of evolution was what made them better. I clearly stated that the teaching of creation did not bring down the quality of education as the evos and atheists claim it would.
There is NO evidence to support the contention that teaching creation and ID in schools will cause the science education of those students learning it to suffer.
The public schools, which teach ONLY evolution, are the ones in the toilet. If teaching evolution only is so superior, then why don’t the statistics bear it out?