As evolution is accurate, it is our responsibility to make sure that our children are properly informed about it.
As a note, I expect that teaching children to think and consider will indeed have political effects, but I’m having trouble finding a downside.
Similarly, teaching them blatant falsehoods - as creationism is wont to do - will have an obvious detriment to them.
That didn’t take long. One against seven or so is okay odds for some of these folk. Two against seven or so? Time to call the mods.
What is this “our” business? Is this like the “Royal We”?
**YOU** have a responsibility toward **your** children **only**. You and others have absolutely no right to force your educational philosophy on any other parent's child or to force others to pay for it!
Macro-evolution has little to no impact on the lives, work, or study of anyone except for the handful of people actually working in the very **narrow** field. of macro-evolution. In the overall world of science few scientists pay any attention to macro-evolution whatsoever!
My husband is a Ph.D. biochemist. That means the chemistry of the body. I have a doctorate in a health specialty. We spent about 20 minutes on the topic of macro-evolution on the undergraduate level. On the doctoral level NO NO NO NO ( that means **Zero**) time was given at any time to the subject. So? tell me how important could it be if the leading researchers and professors in our fields gave it **ZERO** attention? Huh?
If macro-evolution is soooooooo unimportant that the leading researchers and professors in the field of biochemistry and health professions give **ZERO** attention to it in training up fellow scientists and health professionals, then it certainly isn't important enough for you or anyone else to resort to government threat of police action to force it on **other** people's children or to force **others** to pay for your ( Oh so!) anointed educational philosophy.
You’re a hypocrite. In post 143 you flatly deny what you here are just promoting.