Creationists are at fault for Republicans being too spineless to fight for judge nominations or reform in S.S.? Not that I grant your premise we're losing on S.S., but this statement is ridiculous.
Get back to the point. IF evolution IS true, what harm comes of it being challenged in a classroom? I accept challenges to scripture. I accept challenges to government. I support challenges in a class room environment no matter if the subject is a mathematical equasion, literature or science. I even accept challenges to man walking on the moon. In the case of the last, the majority have weighed the evidence and found it lacking. The case is still out on evolution. Dismissing Creationists as being stuck in an outdated faith warp will not breed acceptance of evolution.
Encouraging the ability to debate and test evolution conceivably could IF your argument proves superior.
IF evolution IS true, what harm comes of it being challenged in a classroom? I accept challenges to scripture. I accept challenges to government. I support challenges in a class room environment no matter if the subject is a mathematical equasion, literature or science. I even accept challenges to man walking on the moon.
Of course, people who are confident in what they believe are not afraid of public challenges. Why are evolutionists worried?
The creationism issue is a stick that the left routinely uses to bash us. You may miss the tactic if you don't read many publications, but the criticism exists and congresscritters are aware of it.
The creationism issue takes our focus off the other genuinely important issues such as judicial nominees. It is divisive, as this thread proves, and the left knows how to divide and conquer.
My motivation in posting is an attempt to at least defuse the issue here, among conservatives, before any more of it gets into the public domain and does real damage.