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Where did you get that idea. I think everyone should learn about the THEORY of evolution, intelligent design, and God's word. Freedom of thought should always reign supreme.

Strange then that you have hailed the recent past, when teaching "the THEORY of evolution" was often prohibited by law, as an ideal age of beneficent Christian cultural hegemony.

>> Strange then that you have hailed the recent past, when teaching "the THEORY of evolution" was often prohibited by law, as an ideal age of beneficent Christian cultural hegemony.

Maybe there were some local restrictions (that is their right according to the Constitution). But I was taught evolution in my South Carolina public high school. No problem. At the same time we were taught that God created the universe. I was an agnostic so the God part did not matter at the time (well, I didn't think it did). But even then I felt there was an awful lot of guess work in the theory of evolution. That also did not matter because evolution was taught as a theory. Ohm's Law was taught as a fact. And Bugs Bunny was a cartoon character.

Now every thing has been turned upside down. Our children are taught that evolution is a fact and God is superstition. To the pure in heart the second part is the work of fools, so it is natural for them to assume the first part to be foolish.

This debate reminds me of Isaiah 29:16, which reads, "Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?"