[Dimensio]

You missed the larger point; the one of forcing a hypothesis on the children as though it were a fact

I don't support that. Of course, evolution is theory (like gravity) -- not hypothesis -- and I support teaching it as that.

while disallowing opposition to the basic hypothesis.

I'm sorry, but I can't parse this.

If you are an evolutionist you should be all to familiar with evolutionists dishing out ridicule.

Odd that you say that when there's quite a bit of ridicule coming from the Creationist camp.

[joe_broadway]

If you can't parse that, get someone to help you.

Odd, is it? Huxley, Menchen, Darrow, Asimov, Sagan, Gould, just to name a few who habitually practiced ridicule in the name of evolution and inspired countless others to do likewise. They certainly set the example.

Evolution is an hypothesis, not a theory.