They are completely orthogonal. Your desire for a spiritual approach to education has no place in science courses of any sort. Science is about method, and this method is increasingly and predominantly guiding policy because it *works*.
The real problem here is not “scientism”, but obscurantism. As Orwell said: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH; and this is how I view political-religious folks. Strong because they are ultimately embracing their very ignorance.
As Haldane pointed out: The moment someone shows me a rabbit fossil from the precambrian, I will cease to believe in evolution. This is how it is: Nothing should be sacred in the pursuit of natural truth.
"My desire"????? You're not a very careful reader. Better read my posts in this thread again... OR read them for the first time. Sheesh!
Nah, the headlines would simply read *Mammal evolution occurred earlier that previously thought* and the rabbit would be reclassified as a *living fossil*.
Nothing will ever disprove evolution to an evolutionist because they don't want it to be disproved. They'd find SOME way to explain it away.
Never heard of fossil reworking? Out-of-order fossils are found all the time but are explained-away as being reworked. 'Older' fossils into 'younger' beds as well as 'younger' fossils into 'older' beds.
The whole fossil 'record' is simply a mental construct. The precambrian doesn't exist except in people's minds.