[Qwinn]

"Once it is determined that ID/Creationism can be taught side by side with science, every Mohammad, Ling, Bao, Running Bear, Krishnu, and Oologonquit worth his salt will be quick to make sure his creation myth is given equal time!"

Oh, bull. This is indistinguishable from a Creationist pre-Scopes saying "Once it is determined that evolution can be taught side by side with God, every crackpot scientist worth his salt will be quick to make sure that his Godless theories are given equal time!"

Schools aren't required to teach every last issue that is under dispute (even just within the scientific world) in evolutionary theory. Likewise, schools can teach various theories about the existence of extraterrestrial life, but aren't required to make their students wear tin foil hats and teach every last crackpot theory about abductions and so forth.

Creationism was the only theory taught in schools for 200 years prior to the Scopes Monkey trial, and there were no problems. Now you claim it would be excrutiatingly problematic to do so - and I claim that the only reason it would be so is because those intent on suppressing them would make sure it WAS so.

Qwinn

[whattajoke]

Wrong.

"This is indistinguishable from a Creationist pre-Scopes saying "Once it is determined that evolution can be taught side by side with God, every crackpot scientist worth his salt will be quick to make sure that his Godless theories are given equal time!"

If said scientist's theory is shown to be a crackpot one, then said scientist's theory would not come near a classroom. Case closed.

However, when the push to get supernatural creation myths is accepted, there's no way of stopping other, older, more established religious creation myths from muscling their way in. (Buddhism, Native American myths, etc). It's impossible to "prove" them wrong, and "offensive" to exclude them. Furthermore, there would also be no way of shutting out the truly kooky creation myths, because Lord knows how easy it is to establish a recognized religion these days, and who's to say one is "better" than the other, in the context of unvarifiable mythologies. The Garden of Eden story with talking snakes and forbidden fruits is surely no less difficult to swallow than the Hindu myth as mentioned by Balrog666 earlier.

So let's keep science science, and theology, theology. Problem solved.