[Aric2000]

Better question: Do I believe the educated layman should have some sort of a veto over scientists wishing to indoctrinate his (the layman's) kids in some pet pseudoscience and quasi-religious doctrine in public schools at public expense while claiming that the doctrine is a fact and legally barring all competing theories from being taught?

And what competing scientific theory would that be?

Creationism is a RELIGIOUS theory, Evolution is a Scientific Theory. Creationism should therefore be taught in Philosophy or religious classes, Evolution should be taught in a Science class.

You wish to set up the criteria for such a religious class, please feel free, but do not try to push creationism as a scientifically proven theory, because it is NOT. Therefore, Creationism and evolution are NOT at all the same thing.

Again, CREATIONISM is religious, NO scientific basis nor theory tries to explain it, it is metaphysical, Mythical if you like. Evolution is a scientific theory, based on science and facts that are avaliable at this time, nothing metaphysical nor mythical about it. And to say otherwise is to push the limits of truthfullness to a point where it is basically lying.

All depends on what the word "is" means, when you try and force people to teach creationism in science class, because it is NOT scientific, it is religious, to play word games is a clintonian trick, the 2 subjects are 2 sides of very DIFFERENT coins. They have NO relationship to each other, except for the fact they try to explain the same thing.