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?
If there were genuine scientific issues that would totally discredit evolution, science would be gleeful. It would open up entirely new areas of study, new doctorial thesis, and above all, new funding to study the new phenomenon.
The problem is that there really isn't any scientific evidence that actually challenges evolution. Just a few meaningless objections sold to the non-science population.
What is happening is that a mob of practically half the population with pitchforks and torches is coming after scientists yelling "blasphemy"!
Darn straight they're scared. Scared for their entire field of interest that they've spent a lifetime working at.
Much of it is the fault of bad science education. And much of it is sciences own fault for taking money offered by followers of the Religion of the Environment. But that's another story.