It hardly needed the U.S. government deciding that Biological and other Scientific research would be funded, or that Biology as accepted by Biologists worldwide would be taught in Biology class.
It was only long after the theory became the predominant theory of Biology among Scientists that it was taught in American public schools.
Your ‘propping up’ nonsense is exactly that, utter nonsense. It is akin to saying that the government is propping up Atomic Theory and if not for the massively wasteful Manhattan project and particle accelerators and colliders Atomic Theory would be relegated to the scrap heap of useless Scientific theories. It just isn’t even close to being true.
We have no idea how many scientists actually believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. They have been brainwashed with evolutionary propoganda ever since their grade school days, and if they dare to challenge the Temple of Darwin, they know they will be ostracized, denied the right to publish (and thus perish), have their grants terminated, will no longer be invited to conferences, have their name dragged through the mud in the press, and even potentially subject their schools/universities to lawsuits by Communist organizations like the ACLU. Given the current climate of hate and intimidation, it is impossible to gauge how many working scientists really, truly believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution.
As a side note, I find it interesting that in general, the more a country embraces Darwinist materialism the more socialist they become. And while roughly 50% of the US population rejects Darwin’s TOE, it is also true that the more the party of Darwin (the Demorats) win, the more socialist our government becomes. Could this be the natural trajectory of all nations who embrace Darwinist materialism??? The numbers suggest that may indeed be the case.
==It was only long after the theory became the predominant theory of Biology among Scientists that it was taught in American public schools.
If evolution is to be taught at all in public schools, then the public schools should be free to teach the scientific criticisms of Darwin’s theory, and they should also be free to identify who those critics are, and point them to resources that would allow them to compare theories.
==It just isn’t even close to being true.
Then let’s privatize science and see what happens.