I can hardly wait until some state law requires evolution to be debated in high school classrooms.
As long as it is simply presented as something to be memorized, kids can do the minimum required to pass the tests and then forget it.
But if you require a lengthy and detailed defence of evolution, the amount of material available, including the transcripts of the Dover trial, will make a much stronger impression.
I personally think a history of science would be useful to kids. For me, the history of the debates is really entertaining. For one thin you discover that all the objections andcreationist talking points were debated by scientists for nearly 80 years before reaching the modern synthesis.
What we have now is akin to the status of perpetual motion and free energy machines. It's hardly worth the effort to answer every question that was raised and answered a hundred years ago.
But if the law requires it, the full debate will be taken into the classroom, and students will be required to show the math, so to speak, if they want ot argue.
Me too.. but will never happen.. the socialists and "evos" even the Marxists are on the same train.. You know to propagandize that the THIRD human on this planet did NOT come from the first two.. That he or she evolved as well as the first two.. Evolved in a creative yarn as unprovable as the creationist story is.. However the creationist story could be a metaphor of what really happened.. Since what really happened could be quite unbelievable to normal humans.. and a distraction from lifes real issues..
The judeo christian bible treats origination quickly and metaphorically.. and gets on to the deeper and real issues of life on this planet.. Where humans came from may be beyond humans mental grasp.. UNLESS they concoct a fictitious yarn.. to answer and occlude reality..
Faith is the answer.. to believe the tale of evolution you must make the jump to faith.. I have no problem with that.. You seem to be a believer.. Well God bless you.. You know a believer in the evolution of humans..
I believe in evolution too.. for as Jesus said; "You MUST be born again".. Now thats serious evolution.. being born as another species?.. WoW..