Corollary: Government owned and run socialist-entitlement schools have **NEVER** been religiously, politically, or culturally neutral!
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing K-12 education. END the government school curriculum wars!
Anecdotal Observation: Atheists are the biggest defenders of the godless government schools. Gee! Good for them! They get the taxpayer to fund their religious worldview. How convenient! /sarc
Truth: The **NARROW** field of evolution is important to only a very SMALL number of scientists working in this area of science. The VAST VAST VAST majority of scientists ( even in the area of biology) rarely deal with it in their day to day research and work. As for the rest of the population of American citizens it is of NO IMPORTANCE in their daily lives or work whatsoever.
On a smaller scale, we’ve seen what would happen if the secularists were forced to compete with Christian homeschoolers.
The homeschoolers tend to excel, to put it mildly, as compared to their secular public school contemporaries.
It this were put into ubiquitous practice throughout the country, those teaching based on the knowledge of God (the basis of wisdom) vs those based on the hollow philosophies of man, would so far outpace the secularists that it would show the utter failure of that ideology.
When the Dover School board started flirting with teaching creationism it was a very conservative and mostly Christian electorate that voted them out.
If creationism conflicted with only one theory in biology it might be politic to just ignore that theory when teaching. But creationism conflicts with any number of theories and scientific disciplines.
Science class is there to teach science - not what science is acceptable to those with a primitive and superstitious view of the world.
In the free market where ideas are shown to either have value or not - science is a big winner and creationism is useless.
That is why the conservative and christian electorate of Dover threw out the creationists. Because the people of Dover wanted their children to learn useful things, and creationism is useless.