[Ceewrighter]

Your analogy is still weak. But let me take this discussion back to where it belongs. It is a fact that there remains a debate, locally and nationally, that the TofE is not accepted as valid by everyone. Therefore a school board, governed locally, wants to bring up that fact and merely mention an alternative. It takes less than five minutes to bring it up in class, whereas the TofE is taught for 19 full sequential periods in a semester. I don't see where the problem lies.

[MHalblaub]

"It is a fact that there remains a debate, locally and nationally, that the TofE is not accepted as valid by everyone."

Everyone is not a scientist.

"Therefore a school board, governed locally, wants to bring up that fact and merely mention an alternative."

You are wrong. The school board wants to mention ID and not that some people don't accept the theory of evolution. ID is not a scientific theory and therefore not an alternative to the theory of evolution. You don't believe me? Then try to understand the decision.

"It takes less than five minutes to bring it up in class, whereas the TofE is taught for 19 full sequential periods in a semester. I don't see where the problem lies."

It takes also less than five minutes to say that Hitler was a great leader and the nazis didn't kill 6 million Jews. Do you see a problem with that mentioned to students at school? I do.

[narby]

But let me take this discussion back to where it belongs. It is a fact that there remains a debate, locally and nationally, that the TofE is not accepted as valid by everyone.

There are a literal handful of "scientists", who make their living critiquing evolution. Other than that, there is no debate within the scientific community on the general soundness of the theory.

That other people are stirred up by religious passions to oppose it is irrelevant. We're talking about science class, not religion class.

Allowing one particular creation myth to be taught in science class at the demand of outsiders opens the door for many creation myths to be taught. That's unacceptable.