You've got me confused with someone else on the first point. Sorry I butted in.
I don't agree with your second point though. Evolution is being taught in our schools not because it's an important part of the ciricullum, but rather because the leftists want to mix it up with the fundamentalists and they know that is their hot button. Our schools have become a political football. I don't have any problem with kids being told that the evolution theory exists in public schools, but they don't need to know any more than that to get along in life, or to go to college. Physics would be a much more important thing to learn.
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Evolution is being taught in our schools not because it's an important part of the ciricullum, but rather because the leftists want to mix it up with the fundamentalists and they know that is their hot button.
I disagree. I'm teaching a freshman course in the Chemical Basis of Evolution this fall, and I can tell you the students knew essentially nothing about it coming in (and precious little biology of any kind).
Physics would be a much more important thing to learn.
Biotechnology and genomics are growing by leaps and bounds. Studnets need to know fundamental genetics, for example.