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Until then, a few kooks will continue to cause various amounts of public education funding to be flushed down the toilet rather than used for education.

Teaching kids to question scientific theories is flushing money down the toilet, but the rest of the crap taught in public schools is not. You must be a DU disrupter!

You must be a DU disrupter!

Why are you ID Kooks so embarrassed by your god? I can not imagine how bad your self-esteem must be with your having to hide or deny your god.

Do the kids have the necessary background and training to properly question the theory? Most pre-college biology classes simply give a quick, layman's version of evolution to their students. There really isn't enough information contained therein for a knowledgeable questioning of the actual science behind it. This is also one reason the creationists are fairly successful at their attempts to call evolution into question -- they are basically assaulting the watered-down "monkey" version (no pun intended) rather than the more complicated and involved models actually employed by working scientists. Hell, I've been studying this stuff for years and I find myself making elementary mistakes in our discussions on these threads. Fortunately, we here at FR are blessed with several working biologists (Nebullis, for instance) who really do know what they are talking about.

Teaching kids to question scientific theories is flushing money down the toilet, but the rest of the crap taught in public schools is not. You must be a DU disrupter!

Check out the Nobel prizes in physics. Many, if not most, have been awarded to folks who disrupted prevailing theories. Science award its highest honors to those who are first to find better ideas.