[Mr. Quarterpanel]

The government has no business telling communities what to teach in their schools.

Exellent point. Why don't we let Scientists decide what is taught in Science class?

[SmartCitizen]

Exellent point. Why don't we let Scientists decide what is taught in Science class?

Communities decide, not scientists. Education is the domain of parents and local communities, not scientists. You want to exchange one form of tyranny for another. I remember "scientists" teaching german children that jews were subhuman using the shape of their skulls. Scientists are just as prone to idiocy as any other profession.

[Matchett-PI]

"Why don't we let Scientists decide what is taught in Science class?"

Which sort of scientists? The balanced ones like Copernicus and Galileo, who are in the minority, or the unbalanced ones or will always be in the majority - like Darwin:

"Origin of man now proved. -- Metaphysics must flourish. - He who understands baboon would do more toward Metaphysics than Locke." --- Darwin, Notebook M, August 16, 1838

"...The conflict was between Copernican science and Aristotelian science which had become Church tradition.

Galileo wrote: "I think in the first place that it is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the Holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood." He cited Copernicus in the same vein: "He [Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scripture when they were rightly understood"

[csense]

"The government has no business telling communities what to teach in their schools."

"Exellent point. Why don't we let Scientists decide what is taught in Science class?"

Hmmm, does that mean we should let socialists decide what is taught in sociology cla.... ....er, never mind.