[VadeRetro]

This is my whole problem this is taught in high schools, before anyone has any understanding of anything (oh and it's taught in Jr. High, too). Regardless of the scientific merit of evolution, it is taught as theology. Students must believe and swear fealty to the wise and knowledgeable biologists.

You have to do the same thing with the atomic theory of matter, despite no one having ever seen an atom. If you're going to go into a scientific field, you have to learn the existing body of knowledge to know where to begin. You have to come all the way up to speed to have any hope of making a contribution. If you reject the last 200 years of evidence and conclusions in the discipline (especially if you do so as a matter of pure prejudice and not based upon knowledge or reason), you'll never get there.

[AmishDude]

The evidence is not taught, the conclusion is taught. Whatever evidence is presented to support the conclusion is weak at best at that level.