[so_real]

Nobody's forcing you to accept evolutionary theory.

Technically, the student taking a test on evolutionary theory is forced to accept it -- or is at least forced to fake acceptance of it -- for sake of his grades. A student who does not believe a chicken evolved from a tyrannosaurus would not receive a passing grade by checking that question 'false' on a quiz. Those who fear a theocracy should also fear a scientocracy.

[GSlob]

"Those who fear a theocracy should also fear a scientocracy."
How about "jobmarketocracy"? The last 50 years could have been called "electronics age" and the future looks more and more like "biology/biochemistry age". The technology race does not have silver medals - the winner takes all, and one could argue that preserving and augmenting US technological and scientific leads and the knowledge [secular knowledge!] workforce necessary for maintaining and expanding them is a matter of the highest national interest - not even of national security, but of sheer survival. The necessary corollary is that contemporary dumbing-down PC educrats and their organizations are guilty of high treason.

[metmom]

Technically, the student taking a test on evolutionary theory is forced to accept it -- or is at least forced to fake acceptance of it -- for sake of his grades.


You make an excellent point here. You can force it to be taught but not force it to be believed. Students will parrot back to teachers what they want to hear in order to pass the course. It happens all the time especially at the college level. The education students are recieving then is how to manipulate to get by not how to think critically.