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I'm assuming most people here feel the Christian faith should be represented in public schools, correct?

Not in my case. My seventh grader is learning about Christianity as well as other religions (Hindusim, Judaism, Persian Zoroastrianism) in her ancient history class (taught by a lady in our church whom we know, BTW.) I see nothing wrong with learning about other religions *in the context of a history class.*

As far as worship, I don't think that has a place in public school when the school runs it.

Regarding the teaching of evolution, we don't believe in "young earth creationism." We believe God created the universe and guided human development (so that man has an immortal soul in the image of God), but we believe that happened by "intelligent design," so that the evolutionary process was *used* by God to produce the effect (man & his immortal soul.)

Your kids will find a receptive audience for "intelligent design" arguments as they grow older. I recently attended a lecture a few weeks ago by Michael Behe, which was broadly attended by faculty and graduate students. Everyone was pretty much convinced that it's "real science" because it's "falsifiable," that is, able to be proven false. The primary argument raised against ID is that it seems like too quickly giving up on evolution--evolutionary theory has no current answers to the creation of "irreducible systems", but that doesn't mean it won't in the future. But in any case, it was a great lecture. If you live near the NJ/PA area, you should try to see him.