[Just mythoughts]

What "public funding" do you mean, and what do you base that assesment on?

Who pays for public education, the base foundation upon which the theory got its 'grace'? All that artwork created as evidence to demonstrate a supposed descent from the 'great' ape down to the lower forms labeled humanoids. Few religions of this planet are more cultured than the theory and by law its existence is mandated via taxpayers pockets.

[allmendream]

The theory of evolution through natural selection of genetic variation is the preeminent biological theory around the world, with or without public funding, and often in the face of initial government opposition.

The theory has won out due to the strength of its ability to explain and predict the data.

Do you think the theory of universal gravitation of mass is similarly dependent upon public funding? That if they stopped teaching it in public schools and researching it at public universities that it would “wither on the vine”?

[tacticalogic]

Who pays for public education

So basically, we're talking about eliminating public education.