Hardly, but there is no debate -- none -- over how religion & science are taught in private and home-schools.
They are taught however those schools' operators wish to teach them.
The question on the table is: how should these subjects be taught in government schools?
Of course, our Founders never even imagined, must less proposed, Federally controlled mass education, that would be influenced by the Constitution's prohibition against "establishment of religion".
But now we do have such schools, and assuming they will not be abolished anytime soon, the question remains, how should science & religion be taught there?
So I'll say again what I've posted here before: I think religion can be taught in government schools, provided it is strictly voluntary, with parental consent and presented by qualified clergy.
I do not think that religion should be taught by science teachers, any more than English is taught by Math teachers.
So, how does that not make sense to you, FRiend?
Hardly? What do you mean? Paraphrasing and re-paraphrasing the Soviet Union’s Constitution’s line about how “the church (should be) separated from the state and the school from the church” is “hardly” an affirmation of big government?
The Founding Fathers certainly did imagine the possibility of centrally-controlled mass education given the history of the Old World with such limiting systems, which is why they did not set up the federal government to contain such instruments.